“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.