The people reign over the American political world as does God over the universe. They are the cause and the end of all things; everything comes out of them and everything is absorbed into them.
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Harvey C. Mansfield, Delba Winthrop
While true, also frightening in light of a people who are "post-virtue" and for the most part, "post-God".
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