“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.