Sublime

only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way.

In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution,

The most ambitious publishing effort of his career was launched, a work of ten volumes encompassing the entire natural history of the United States. It was his “endeavor to make myself understood by all.”

La démocratie est prise sous un feu croisé : par le haut avec la possible apparition d’un despote ; par le bas en raison de la tyrannie de l’opinion publique et du développement de l’individualisme au détriment du bien commun.

it is therefore very difficult to discover a medium between the sovereignty of all and the absolute power of one man:

Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy.

in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.