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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."
"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."
"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
"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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"Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents."
"A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia."
"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."
"In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom."
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."
"Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right."
"The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people."
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