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"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
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"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
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"The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor."
"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
"Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most."
"Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty."
"The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled."
"We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources."
"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake."
"Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched."
"Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations."
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