The French, by contrast, faced a future in which “it is difficult to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them,” and “into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves, lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well-being to the prosperity of their fellow-creatures.”
En revanche, la santé de l'Amérique était inhérente à son gouvernement du bas vers le haut et à sa forte base démocratique.