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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 him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

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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 gentleman.

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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.

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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 from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

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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.

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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 opinion.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 15th, 1789

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