In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their overpowering strength; and I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty w...
nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.
