The Disposition Of All Power Is To

It Is The Fate Of All Things To Ripen, And Then To Decay.

The Very Existence Of Government At All, Infers Inequality. The Citizen Who Is Preferred To Office Becomes The Superior Of Those Who Are Not, So Long He Is The Repository Of Power.

Equality, In A Social Sense, May Be Divided Into That Of Condition, And That Of Rights. Equality Of Condition Is Incompatible With Civilization, And Is Found Only To Exist In Those Communities That Are But Slightly Removed From The Savage State. In Practice, It Can Only Mean A Common Misery. Equality Of Rights Is A Peculiar Feature Of Democracies. These Rights Are Properly Divided Into Civil And Political, Though Even These Definitions Are Not To Be Taken As Absolute, Or As Literally Exact.

We Live In A World Of Transgressions And Selfishness, And No Pictures That Represent Us Otherwise Can Be True; Though Happily For Human Nature, Gleamings Of That Pure Spirit In Whose Likeness Man Has Been Fashioned, Are To Be Seen, Relieving Its Deformities, And Mitigating, If Not Excusing Its Crimes.

All Greatness Of Character Is Dependent On Individuality. The Man Who Has No Other Existence Than That Which He Partakes In Common With All Around Him, Will Never Have Any Other Than An Existence Of Mediocrity.