Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Brief Info: French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian
Years Lived: 1805-1859
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Quotations
The exercise of the intellect
topics: science
From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science, every fresh truth and every new idea became a germ of power placed within the reach of the people.
From the book Democracy in America
— 1835
