Alexis de Tocqueville: America’s problem

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“I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold…[than the United States].”

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) in Democracy in America: Volume 1 (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838) 45.