It Is The Fate Of All Things

A Monarchy Is The Most Expensive Of All Forms Of Government, The Regal State Requiring A Costly Parade, And He Who Depends On His Own Power To Rule, Must Strengthen That Power By Bribing The Active And Enterprising Whom He Cannot Intimidate.

If The Newspapers Are Useful In Overthrowing Tyrants, It Is Only To Establish A Tyranny Of Their Own.

The Ability To Discriminate Between That Which Is True And That Which Is False Is One Of The Last Attainments Of The Human Mind.

They Who Have Reasoned Ignorantly, Or Who Have Aimed At Effecting Their Personal Ends By Flattering The Popular Feeling, Have Boldly Affirmed That 'one Man Is As Good As Another'; A Maxim That Is True In Neither Nature, Revealed Morals, Nor Political Theory.

The Listeners Got Some Such Insights Into Their Past Lives, As One Gets Into The Darker Parts Of The Woods, When A Stray Gleam Of Sunshine Finds Its Way Down To The Roots Of The Trees.