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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religiou...  
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of ...  
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and...  
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citiz...  
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for...  
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater li...  
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the ...  
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, an...  
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a wa...  
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.  
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citize...