"Russell Baker once said that in our time people cite Tocqueville without reading
him even more than they do the Bibie and Shakespeare. Every American president
sińce Eisenhower has ąuoted him, no doubt without reading him, and some of our
professors, to say nothing of other citizens, have picked up their habit of fishing for
what they like, and throwing back the rest, in Tocqueville’s great work Democracy
in America."(...