A Political Career Brings Out The Basest

Of All The Differences Between The Old World And The New, This Is Perhaps The Most Salient. Half The Wars Of Europe, Half The Internal Troubles That Have Vexed European States... Have Arisen From Theological Differences Or From The Rival Claims Of Church And State. This Whole Vast Chapter Of Debate And Strife Has Remained Virtually Unopened In The United States. There Is No Established Church. All Religious Bodies Are Equal Before The Law, And Unrecognized By The Law, Except As Voluntary Associations Of Private Citizens.

The Ordinary American Voter Does Not Object To Mediocrity. He Likes His Candidate To Be Sensible, Vigorous, And, Above All, What He Calls 'magnetic,' And Does Not Value, Because He Sees No Need For, Originality Or Profundity, A Fine Culture Or A Wide Knowledge.

There Is In The American Government...a Want Of Unity.... The Sailors, The Helmsman, The Engineer, Do Not Seem To Have One Purpose Or Obey One Will So That Instead Of Making Steady Way The Vessel May Pursue A Devious Or Zigzag Course, And Sometimes Merely Turn Round And Round In The Water.

I Have Often Asked Americans Wherein They Consider Their Freedom Superior To That Of The English, But Have Never Found Them Able To Indicate A Single Point In Which The Individual Is Worse Off In England As Regards His Private Civil Rights Or His General Liberty Of Doing And Thinking As He Pleases. They Generally Turn The Discussion To Social Equality, The Existence Of A Monarchy And Hereditary Titles And So Forth - Matters Which Are, Of Course, Quite Different From Freedom In Its Proper Sense.

Perhaps The Most Typically American Place In America.