Alexis de Tocqueville

September 4, 2018Written by Rick Shrader

Alexis de Tocqueville on America

“It must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to Anglo-American society. In the United States, religion is therefore mingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism, whence it derives a peculiar force.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2, p. 6.

Source: Democracy in America (vol 2)

Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French diplomat, historian, and scientist. In the 1830s he came to America to examine our prison system but traveled extensively to study America as a whole. His conclusions were printed in 1835 in two volumes called Dem …

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