It is the fashion of a certain set to assume to despise politics. … But to our view, the spectacle is always a grand one—full of the most august and sublime attributes.
American Democracy, in the Brooklyn Eagle, April 20, 1847
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
