The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

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I cannot live without books.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.