It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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