Every Class Is Unfit To Govern.

Liberty Is Not The Power Of Doing What We Like, But The Right Of Being Able To Do What We Ought.

There Is No Error So Monstrous That It Fails To Find Defenders Among The Ablest Men. Imagine A Congress Of Eminent Celebrities, Such As More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, Etc. The Result Would Be An Encyclopedia Of Error.

Writers The Most Learned, The Most Accurate In Details, And The Soundest In Tendency, Frequently Fall Into A Habit Which Can Neither Be Cured Nor Pardoned,-the Habit Of Making History Into The Proof Of Their Theories.

Before God, There Is Neither Greek Nor Barbarian, Neither Rich Nor Poor, And The Slave Is As Good As His Master, For By Birth All Men Are Free; They Are Citizens Of The Universal Commonwealth Which Embraces All The World, Brethren Of One Family, And Children Of God.

Government By Idea Tends To Take In Everything, To Make The Whole Of Society Obedient To The Idea. Spaces Not So Governed Are Unconquered, Beyond The Border, Unconverted, A Future Danger.