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"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
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"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."
"With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power."
"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."
"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."
"Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents."
"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."
"The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people."
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