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point of fact democracies have never been satisfied with a definition of
democratic policy in terms of liberty. Not only have the particular
friends of liberty usually been hostile to democracy, but democracies
both in idea and behavior have frequently been hostile to liberty; and
they have been justified in distrusting a political regime organized
wholly or even chiefly for its benefit. "La Liberte," says Mr. Emile
Faguet, in the preface to his "Politiques et Moralistes du Dix-Neuvieme
Siecle"--"La Liberte s'oppose a l'Egalite, car La Liberte est
aristocratique par essence. La Liberte ne se donne jamais, ne s'octroie
jamais; elle se conquiert. Or ne peuvent la conquerir que des groupes
sociaux qui out su se donne la coherence, l'organisation et la
discipline et qui par consequent, sont des groupes aristocratiques."
The fact that states organized exclusively or largely for the benefit
of liberty are essentially aristocratic explains the hostile and
suspicious attitude of democracies towards such a principle of political
action.


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