Alexis de Tocqueville quote about poverty from Democracy in America - The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
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“ The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. ”
 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). copy citation

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Author Alexis de Tocqueville
Source Democracy in America
Topic poverty immigration misfortune exile
Date 1835
Language English
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Note Translated by Henry Reeve
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm

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Alexis de Tocqueville quote about poverty from Democracy in America - The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
Alexis de Tocqueville quote about poverty from Democracy in America - The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.