“America today offers man resources so vast that industry cannot exploit them fast enough.

…There is no reason to fear new needs, because all needs are easily satisfied. There is no reason to dread unleashing a surfeit of passions, because all passions find easy and salutary nourishment. Americans cannot have too much freedom, because they are almost never tempted to use their freedom improperly.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 329, 1835