Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived. … But this party extends over the whole community, and penetrates into all the classes which compose it; it acts upon the country imperceptibly, but finally fashions it to suit its own purposes.


Democracy in America, 1835


The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived. … But this party extends over the whole community, ...

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived. … But this party extends over the whole community, ...

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived. … But this party extends over the whole community, ...

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived. … But this party extends over the whole community, ...