Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
Birthday: July 29
Death: April 16
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.
source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.297, Library of America
topic: Character, Ambition, Men, Independence Of Thought, Political Ambition
