Andy Jados Quotes

The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people

The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true