It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.