As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the s...ingle real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not c...ommit suicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holme...s said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world--the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the cons...titution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which... Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing ...what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent..., without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »