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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a... →
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public... →
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that... →
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