The principal reason for this is that the first do not think of the evils they endure, whereas the others dream constantly of the goods they do not have. In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men placed in the happiest condition that exists in the world it seemed to me that a sort of cloud habitually covered their features they appeared to me grave and almost sad even in their pleasures.
Nevertheless, they ordinarily show a serene countenance, and they often let a playful humor appear. Most of these peoples are very ignorant and very miserable they do not meddle in the affairs of government and often governments oppress them. One still sometimes encounters small populations in certain secluded districts of the Old World that have been almost forgotten in the midst of the universal tumult and that have remained immobile when everything around them was moving. Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive in the Midst of Their Well-BeingĮdited, translated and with an introductionīy Harvey C.
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