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    Wednesday
    7 January 2009

    The American Republic will endure until…

     

    Alexis de Tocqueville

    Alexis de Tocqueville

    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

     

    “The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”

    – Alexis de Tocqueville

    How appropriate in these financial times.

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