A successful man sees great equality in America.
The equality of the American citizen is decreed by the fundamental law. All acts, all institutions, are based upon this idea. There is not one shred of privilege, hence no classes. The American people are a unit.
Difference of position in the state, resulting from birth, would be held to insult the citizen. The vote of an Emerson or a Lincoln weighs no more than that of the poorest Negro. The president has not a privilege which is not the birthright of every other citizen. The first voice of the people may not be always the voice of God. Indeed, sometimes it does seem to be very far from it; but the second voice of the people their sober second thought comes nearest to it of any tribunal, much nearer than the voice of any class, even that of the most highly educated, has ever come in any government under the sun. Hence there is no voice in all America which has the faintest authority when the ballot speaks.