He probably did. I'm not really familiar with his works, so I may have remembered this from a quote that someone else posted.
Sometimes it's hard for me to avoid plagiarizing -- I remember a lot of things like this without ever remembering where they are from. LOL.
No worries. I wasn't trying to catch you. I just happened to have bought de Toqueville's
Democracy in America recently and remember him saying something about this.
It also happens to be true, I believe.