The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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