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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave…

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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not…
The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the…
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is…
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of…
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or…
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy)…
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing…
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of…
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

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