I found it. It's in Vol. 1. Several citations I found for the quote showed it as page 292,294 of Vol. 2.

De Tocqueville has always fascinated me, but I've never read the entire work, just excerpts. I think I'm going to read the whole thing.

As I was browsing the introduction of the first volume, I came across this passage:

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality
which excites men to wish all to be powerful and
honoured. This passion tends to elevate the humble to
the rank of the great ; but there exists also in the human
heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels
the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own
level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to
inequality with freedom. Not that those nations whose
social condition is democratic naturally despise liberty ;
on the contrary, they have an instinctive love of it. But
liberty is not the chief and constant object of their desires
; equality is their idol : they make rapid and sudden
efforts to obtain liberty ; and if they miss their aim,
resign themselves to then* disappointment ; but nothing
can satisfy them except equality, and rather than lose
it they resolve to perish.

Democracy In America, Vol. 1, Page 48

This is a little off-topic for the "News & Views" message board, but I was effected by this passage, because I believe this attitude is prevalent in our country today. I guess the great and profound question is "Is it better to be free but not equal or equal but not free?" I choose the former.

Jim