… is from page 897 of the 2010 Liberty Fund edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 work, Democracy in America (James T. Schleifer, translator):
I found in America some kinds of associations of which, I confess, I had not even the idea, and I often admired the infinite art with which the inhabitants of the United States succeeded in setting a common goal for the efforts of a great number of men, and in making them march freely toward it.