“Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.”

— Alexis De Tocqueville , book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter V

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French political thinker and historian 1805–1859

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