Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a noted French political commentator in the 1800's. After a trip to learn more about the United States he wrote:

"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."

From:
de Tocqueville, Alexis, The Republic of the United States and Its Political Institutions Reviewed and Examined, Henry Reeves translator, (Garden City, NY, A.S. Barnes & Co.) 1851, Vol. I p.335.