Sublime

caprices

tutelary

tutelage

Despotism therefore appears to me particularly to be dreaded in democratic ages.

do not fear that in their chiefs they will find tyrants, but rather schoolmasters.

There is no question of rendering it weak or indolent, but only of preventing it from abusing its agility and force.

they make them alternatively the playthings of the sovereign and its masters, more than kings and less than men. After

Alexis de Tocqueville