Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
87
AUTHOR:
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59)
QUOTATION:
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
ATTRIBUTION:
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 1, chapter 4, concluding sentences, p. 60 (1969). Originally published in 1835–1840.
