AdT Plus 203

AdT Plus 203 July 29, 2008

America demonstrates invincibly one thing that I had doubted up to now: that the middle classes can govern a State. … Despite their small passions, their incomplete education, their vulgar habits, they can obviously provide a practical sort of intelligence and that turns out to be enough.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, born on this date in 1805

Stolen from The Writer’s Almanac.
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