Alexis de Tocqueville

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America 1835
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

- Alexis de Tocqueville