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Greatness by Alexis de Tocqueville
In the early 1830s, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to examine its civil institutions. His studies were expounded in the classic work, Democracy in America. In it, he wrote,
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Posted by tim at May 8, 2004 10:34 PM
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