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When a people which has put up with an oppressive rule over a long period without protest suddenly finds the government relaxing its pressure, it takes up arms against it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Source: The Old Regime and the French Revolution [1856], III, 4

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The Old Regime and the French Revolution [1856], III, 4

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