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"...America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” (Around 1840) by Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, a book which was assigned to the entire Republican freshman class of the 104th congress.

That is a lovely phrase, only there is no evidence that de Tocqueville ever wrote it. Do you have a source?

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"...America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” (Around 1840) by Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America..."

To: hoosierskypilot
That is a lovely phrase, only there is no evidence that de Tocqueville ever wrote it. Do you have a source?
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I haven't actually read it, but I understood that quote to be inside de Tocqueville's book, "Democracy in America."

I've heard that quote attributed to his book several times.