A People Averse To The Institution Of

It Was From America That The Plain Ideas That Men Ought To Mind Their Business, And That The Nation Is Responsible To Heaven For The Acts Of The State, - Ideas Long Locked In The Breast Of Solitary Thinkers, And Hidden Among Latin Folios, - Burst Forth Like A Conqueror Upon The World They Were Destined To Transform, Under The Title Of The Rights Of Man... And The Principle Gained Ground, That A Nation Can Never Abandon Its Fate To An Authority It Cannot Control.

Be Not Content With The Best Book; Seek Sidelights From The Others; Have No Favourites.

I Cannot Accept Your Canon That We Are To Judge Pope And King Unlike Other Men, With A Favorable Presumption That They Do No Wrong. If There Is Any Presumption, It Is The Other Way Against Holders Of Power...power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

I Exhort You Never To Debase The Moral Currency Or To Lower The Standard Of Rectitude, But To Try Others By The Final Maxim That Governs Your Own Lives, And To Suffer No Man And No Cause To Escape The Undying Penalty Which History Has The Power To Inflict On Wrong.

The State Is Competent To Assign Duties And Draw The Line Between Good And Evil Only In Its Immediate Sphere. Beyond The Limits Of Things Necessary For Its Well-being, It Can Only Give Indirect Help To Fight The Battle Of Life By Promoting The Influences Which Prevail Against Temptation--religion, Education, And The Distribution Of Wealth.