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Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End. It Is Not For The Sake Of A Good Public Administration That It Is Required, But For The Security In The Pursuit Of The Highest Objects Of Civil Society, And Of Private Life.

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.

It Is They [men Of Science] Who Hold The Secret Of The Mysterious Property Of The Mind By Which Error Ministers To Truth, And Truth Slowly But Irrevocably Prevails. Theirs Is The Logic Of Discovery, The Demonstration Of The Advance Of Knowledge And The Development Of Ideas, Which As The Earthly Wants And Passions Of Men Remain Almost Unchanged, Are The Charter Of Progress, And The Vital Spark In History.

The One Pervading Evil Of Democracy Is The Tyranny Of The Majority, Or Rather Of That Party, Not Always The Majority, That Succeeds, By Force Or Fraud, In Carrying Elections.

Character Is Tested By True Sentiments More Than By Conduct. A Man Is Seldom Better Than His Word.