America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motio…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Patrick Renshaw (1998). Democracy in America, p.167, Wordsworth Editions
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