| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61334 |
| QUOTATION: | What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French social philosopher. “Democracy,” vol. 2, appendix 5, Democracy in America (1840). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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