Sublime

it is therefore very difficult to discover a medium between the sovereignty of all and the absolute power of one man:

Le choix des États-Unis était à la fois original et significatif : il écartait la destination simple et naturelle qu’était l’Angleterre, alors érigée en modèle du libéralisme par Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, et François Guizot, figures tutélaires de l’Académie française et de la science politique. Tocqueville choisit de s’en détourner au profit d’une

history’s choices are not made for the benefit of humans.

Why a democratic people is less capable of sustained effort than another.

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.

The band which to his eyes was a mere party of adventurers gone forth to seek their fortune beyond seas appears to the reader as the germ of a great nation wafted by Providence to a predestined shore.

No longer able to ransack British history for heroes, many patriots turned to classical history for inspiration. Ancient Rome in its republican phase provided uplifting examples, while its decline and fall into despotism offset them with cautionary tales. Washington identified with the stern code of honor and duty in ancient Rome, taking Cato as a

now,