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The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity, Since The Tastes, Knowledge, And Principles Of The Majority Form The Tribunal Of Appeal.

There Is A Destiny In War, To Which A Brave Man Knows How To Submit With The Same Courage That He Faces His Foes.

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.

The Vulgar Charge That The Tendency Of Democracies Is To Leveling, Meaning To Drag All Down To The Level Of The Lowest, Is Singularly Untrue; Its Real Tendency Being To Elevate The Depressed To A Condition Not Unworthy Of Their Manhood.

I've Heard It Said That There Are Men Who Read In Books To Convince Themselves There Is A God. I Know Not But Man May So Deform His Works In The Settlements, As To Leave That Which Is So Clear In The Wilderness A Matter Of Doubt Among Traders And Priests.