Andrew J. Bacevich Quotes

Touring The United States In The 1830s, Alexis De Tocqueville, Astute Observer Of The Young Republic, Noted The "feverish Ardor" Of Its Citizens To Accumulate. Yet, Even As The Typical American "clutches At Everything," The Frenchman Wrote, "he Holds Nothing Fast, But Soon Loosens His Grasp To Pursue Fresh Gratifications." However Munificent His Possessions, The American Hungered For More, An Obsession That Filled Him With "anxiety, Fear, And Regret, And Keeps His Mind In Ceaseless Trepidation."2

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