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Self-interest rightly understood seems the moral theory best suited to people of our time
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- Alexis de Tocqueville French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859)
I am not afraid to say that the principle of interest, rightly understood, appears to me the best suited of all philosophical theories to the wants of the men of our time, and that I regard it as their chief remaining security against themselves.
Where this was said
↗Democracy in America, Volume 2 (1840; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org
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