Tocqueville
Americannoun
noun
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“Debt issuance trends are strong and tracking 17% year over year in the second quarter,” Brian McKnight, equity analyst for Tocqueville Asset Management, which holds 39,000 shares, worth about $16.5 million, tells Barron’s.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Thus wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America” about the reverence with which this country’s citizens in the 1830s regarded remunerative labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
But “of all the forms democratic despotism could take,” Tocqueville continues, “the worst would be to turn over all the powers of government to the hands of an irresponsible person.”
From Salon • May 17, 2025
That is what Alexis de Tocqueville called “the habits of the heart” of democracy.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2024
Soon after their arrival, Tocqueville and Beaumont heard a story that appeared to shed further light on the keepers’ ideology.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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