Friends Should Be Judged By Their Acts,

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

Nothing Moves More Quickly Than Scandal.

It Is Easier To Criticize Than To Correct Our Past Errors.

We Survive On Adversity And Perish In Ease And Comfort.

Avarice And Luxury, Those Evils Which Have Been The Ruin Of Every Great State.