Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
Birthday: July 29
Death: April 16
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book One, Chapter V, 1840.
topic: Business, Equality, Men, Excessiveness
