Really? I have it saved as him and I had multiple sources with the same. You have any info on who it actually was?
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev love your work but I’m not sure that’s an actual quote by de Tocqueville… 😬
That said, it’s still a valid and very insightful quote! 🔥
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I can’t say for sure but it’s definitely not in “Democracy in America”. For what it’s worth the quote is listed as misattributed on goodreads and wikiquote..
Apparently, per wikiquote that is, “the earliest known occurrence is as an unsourced attribution to Tytler in "This is the Hard Core of Freedom" by Elmer T. Peterson in The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951)”
That’s funny it’s also listed as him eon goodreads. Must be multiple versions of it with one as Alexis and another as unattributed.
Goodreads is actually where I copied it from, but that’s only because I was looking it up there. I had it saved from somewhere else where I didn’t save the link apparently. That’s why I went to goodreads. But it didn’t have a link to where it was from, only his name.