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“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and of themselves.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
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Democracy in America (1)
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1)