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Card #c170IR // #c170Synthesis

It cannot be repeated too often that nothing is more fertile in prodigies than the art of being free; but there is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty.

— In our words · Source: Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)

[Use when]

When liberty looks like too much trouble.

[Why it matters]

Freedom is fertile but its apprenticeship is arduous — despotism’s temporary prosperity is the trap.

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