Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those w
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The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose
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The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. Th
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental
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In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a be
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with
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