Mike Pence: “in the 1830s, the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville took a road trip through America. We were a very young Nation…”

“in the 1830s, the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville took a road trip through America. We were a very young Nation, less than 60 years old, progressing, as Thomas Jefferson said, ``beyond the reach of the mortal eye.'' De Tocqueville came to find out for himself whether the great democratic revolution he had been told about was really true. Believing that this young nation would ``sway the destinies of half the globe'', de Tocqueville wrote, ``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 her power.''”