evidence: An image shared on Facebook credits French author and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville with saying, "A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office." [...] Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 21, 2019 "A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office," she credits Tocqueville with saying. However, the quote does not appear in his canonical work "Democracy in America," or any of his other writings. The Daily Caller News Foundation searched his collected works for the expression but found no matches. (RELATED: Did Alexis de Tocqueville Say, ‘The American Republic Will Endure Until The Day Congress Discovers That It Can Bribe The Public With The Public’s Money’?)