A bit of fascinating history about our country: In 1831 the French lawyer/judge, Alexis de Tocqueville, visited the United States in order to better understand this experiment in freedom, this nation that followed no heretofore used mold for governing and government. Upon his return to France, de Tocqueville wrote a book, Democracy in America, the best definitive study of American culture and the American Constitutional system published up to that time. One of his most frequently quoted passages reads:
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Do we Americans who love our country dare to ask ourselves now----How good are we?
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