The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit

Each One Of Us Must In The End Choose For Himself How Far He Would Like To Leave Our Collective Fate To The Wayward Vagaries Of Popular Assemblies For Myself It Would Be Most Irksome To Be Ruled By A Bevy Of Platonic Guardians, Even If I Knew How To Choose Them, Which I Assuredly Do Not I Should Miss The Stimulus Of Living In A Society Where I Have, At Least Theoretically, Some Part In The Direction Of Public Affairs.

No Doubt One May Quote History To Support Any Cause, As The Devil Quotes The Scripture.

How Long Shall We Blunder Along Without The Aid Of Unpartisan And Authoritative Scientific Assistance In The Administration Of Justice, No One Knows; But All Fair Persons Not Conventionalized By Provincial Legal Habits Of Mind Ought, I Should Think, Unite To Effect Some Change.

Right Knows No Boundaries, And Justice No Frontiers; The Brotherhood Of Man Is Not A Domestic Institution.

The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Of Him Who, Near Two Thousand Years Ago, Taught Mankind That Lesson It Has Never Learned ... .