Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.


Tocqueville: Democracy in America (ed. Library of America, 2004) - ISBN: 9781598531817


Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,...

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,...

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,...

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,...