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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the... →
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around... →
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing... →
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of... →
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule... →
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to... →
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne... →
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long... →
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain... →
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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