“What most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.”

— Alexis De Tocqueville, book Democracy in America

Book Two, Chapter XIX.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

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