Uncommon wisdom, nowadays

For a French aristocrat born 219 years ago, on July 29, 1805, Alexis de Tocqueville sure had some prescient things to say about American society and politics. From his landmark Democracy in America, published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840: "In the United States, the common man has understood how the general prosperity affects his own happiness—a very simple idea, yet one of which the people in most countries have only a very limited grasp."

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