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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
"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."
"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world."
"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies."
"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."
"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
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