The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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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.James F. Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
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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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