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“The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave…

— John F. Kennedy

“More than a century before Mills and Nisbet, Alexis de Tocqueville had remarked upon the uneasiness of the citizens of the young republic, who…

— Charles J. Sykes

“The American attachment to intellectual self-reliance described by Tocqueville survived for nearly a century before falling under a series of assaults from both within…

— Thomas M. Nichols

One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the…

— Chrystia Freeland

“Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as outmoded and…

— Mark R. Levin

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

“De Tocqueville admired “the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of…

— Ron Paul

“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward”

— Michael Chabon

“pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,”

— James Davison Hunter

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are…

— Israel Zangwill