Individualism, The Love Of Enterprise, And The

The People, Though We Think Of A Great Entity When We Use The Word, Means Nothing More Than So Many Millions Of Individual Men.

No Wonder That, When A Political Career Is So Precarious, Men Of Worth And Capacity Hesitate To Embrace It. They Cannot Afford To Be Thrown Out Of Their Life's Course By A Mere Accident.

Medicine, The Only Profession That Labors Incessantly To Destroy The Reason For Its Own Existence.

I Have Often Asked Americans Wherein They Consider Their Freedom Superior To That Of The English, But Have Never Found Them Able To Indicate A Single Point In Which The Individual Is Worse Off In England As Regards His Private Civil Rights Or His General Liberty Of Doing And Thinking As He Pleases. They Generally Turn The Discussion To Social Equality, The Existence Of A Monarchy And Hereditary Titles And So Forth - Matters Which Are, Of Course, Quite Different From Freedom In Its Proper Sense.

In Europe We Have Cities Wealthier And More Populous Than Yours And We Are Not Happy. You Dream Of Your Posterity; But Your Posterity Will Look Back To Yours As The Golden Age, And Envy Those Who First Burst Into This Silent, Splendid Nature.