democracy in action

So I'm writing a paper on the American value of the rugged individual and was skimming through Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (which is uber-long) and found these section titles to be quite humorous.

- Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French for General Ideas in Political Matters.
- How the Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Arts.
- Why the Americans at the Same Time Raise Such Little and Such Great Monuments.
- Why American Writers and Orators Are Often Bombastic.
- On the Gravity of the Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Their Often Doing Ill-Considered Things.
- Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Restive and More Quarrelsome than That of the English.
- Why One Finds So Many Ambitious Men in the United States and So Few Great Ambitions.

Hahahaha. We've come so far in 200 years!