Political literatureReligious insanity is very common in the United States.Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America · 1840★ 6.4
Political literatureThus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America · 1840★ 6.2
Political literatureThe love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America · 1840★ 6.2
Political literatureDemocratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.... Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America · 1840★ 5.4
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