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"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
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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."
"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
"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."
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"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest."
"It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled."
"The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people."
"With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power."
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."
"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
"Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents."
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