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It’s all about the stuff

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was born on this day in 1859 (died April 16, 1859). Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (from which the above quote is taken) was written after his travels …

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