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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: them openly than he is loudly censured by his overbearing
opponents, whilst those who think without having the courage to
speak, like him, abandon him in silence. He yields at length,
oppressed by the daily efforts he has been making, and he
subsides into silence, as if he was tormented by remorse for
having spoken the truth.
Fetters and headsmen were the coarse instruments which
tyranny formerly employed; but the civilization of our age has
refined the arts of despotism which seemed, however, to have been
sufficiently perfected before. The excesses of monarchical power
had devised a variety of physical means of oppression: the
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