“ The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say. ”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840). copy citation
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1840
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English
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Translated by Henry Reeve