THXXX Osha:
I shall begin by depicting them as they were in their heyday of the Revolution; when the love of equality and the urge to freedom went hand-in-hand; when they wished to set up not merely a truly democratic government but free institutions, not only to do away with the privileges but also to make good and stabilize the rights of man, the individual. Youth was at the helm, in that age of fervid enthusiasm, of proud and generous aspirations, whose memory, despite its extravagances, men will forever cherish: a phase of history that for many years to come will trouble the sleep of all who seek to demoralize the nation and reduce it to a servile state. [Osha emphasis]
Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, x–xi
Bill Ayers 