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Universal suffrage does not guarantee a wise choice of leaders
Drawn from what Alexis de Tocqueville said
What Alexis de Tocqueville actually said
- Alexis de Tocqueville French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859)
I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.
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↗Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org
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