The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.
Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.
Alexis de TocquevilleIt is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.
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