Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?


Letter to Ernest de Chabrol, 9 June 1831 Tocqueville Reader, p. 41.


As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the...