Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
Birthday: July 29
Death: April 16
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
source: Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”
topic: Girl, Children, May, Losing Her, Reins
