“Sole among nationalities, these States have assumed the task to put in forms of lasting power and practicality, on areas of amplitude rivaling the operations of the physical kosmos, the moral political speculations of ages, long, long deferr’d, the democratic republican principle, and the theory of development and perfection by voluntary standards, and self reliance.”
-Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas
“Ever since the publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, the United States has played a central role in systematic studies of the links between democracy and civil society.”
-Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone
“Associations are formed to combat exclusively moral trouble: intemperance is fought in common.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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