He dislikes or ignores liberty, only when it looks in the direction of moral and intellectual emancipation.

In so far as his influence has prevailed, Americans have been encouraged to think those thoughts and to perform those acts which everybody else is thinking and performing.
The effect of a belief in the principle of "equal rights" on freedom is, however, most clearly shown by its attitude toward Democratic political organization and policy.

A people jealous of their rights are not sufficiently afraid of special individual efficiency and distinction to take very many precautions against it.

They greet it oftener with neglect than with positive coercion.

Jeffersonian Democracy is, however, very much afraid of any examples of associated efficiency.