When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.