“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.”
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.