Early Christian America

‘If we could go right back to the element of societies and examine the very first records of their histories, I have no doubt that we should there find the first cause of their prejudices, habits, dominating passions, and all that comes to be called the national character.’

‘Great parties convulse society; small ones agitate it; the former rend and the latter corrupt it; the first may sometimes save it by overthrowing it, but the second always create unprofitable trouble.

America has had great parties; now they no longer exist. This has been a great gain in happiness but not in morality.

When the War of Independence came to an end and a new government had to be established, the nation was divided between two opinions. Those opinions were as old as the world itself and are found under different forms and with various names in all free societies. One party wanted to restrict popular power and the other to extend it indefinitely.’

Alexis De Tocqueville

By diggs on Mar 6, 2010

diggs,

You can almost never go wrong when guoting Alexis De Tocqueville.

Thank you
wayne

By Administrator on Mar 8, 2010