Tocqueville also said “ Nothing conceivable is so petty , 
so insipid, so crowded with Paltry interests in one word so anti-poetic
as the life of a man in the United States. In America suicide is rare, 
but one is sure that madness is more common than everywhere else.
It is a strange thing to see with what sort of feverish ardor 
Americans pursue well-being and how they show themselves 
constantly tormented by a vague fear of not having chosen 
the shortest route that can lead to it.

The inhabitant of the United States attaches himself 
to the goods of this world as if he were assured of not dying, 
and he rushes so precipitately to grasp those that pass within his reach
that one would say he fears at each instant he will cease to live 
before he has enjoyed them. He grasps them all but without clutching them, 
and he soon allows them to escape from his hands 
so as to run after new enjoyments.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority 
display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way 
threaten the way property is owned.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.” I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men,

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind 
and real freedom of discussion as in America.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, 
but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”