“The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835. From the series Great Ideas of Western 

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Jacques Nathan Garamond, "The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history."--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835. From the series Great Ideas of Western , 1955, gouache and pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, sheet: 13 x 11 in. (33.0 x 27.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.98