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LAW & HISTORY > scientist, historian, politician > Alexis de Tocqueville
America is a...
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. . . . No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes, what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to
Source: Democracy in America, 1840.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, (Jul 29 1805-1879), French scientist, historian, politician; He is best-known for Democracy in America, 4 vol., 1835-40, a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the U.S. in early 19th C.