I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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