We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which in due time came to be only another name for th...e Jacksonian vulgarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent--a charac...ter in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »