There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans…Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.


De la Démocratie en Amérique (1835–40) vol. 1

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; ...

There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; ...

There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; ...

There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; ...