The Apathy Of The Modern Voter Is

You Cannot Raise The Standard Against Oppression, Or Leap Into The Breach To Relieve Injustice, And Still Keep An Open Mind To Every Disconcerting Fact, Or An Open Ear To The Cold Voice Of Doubt.

Those Of Us Who Have Come To Years Of Discretion And More, Must Often Take To Retrospect, And Seek To Appraise The Outcome Of Our Lives.

We Prate Of Freedom; We Are In Deadly Fear Of Life, As Much Of Our Own American Scene Betrays.

No Doubt One May Quote History To Support Any Cause, As The Devil Quotes Scripture; But Modern History Is Not A Very Satisfactory Side-arm In Political Polemics; It Grows Less And Less So.

Liberty Lies In The Hearts Of Men And Women; When It Dies There, No Constitution, No Law, No Court Can Save It ... The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Which Is Not Too Sure That It Is Right; The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Which Seeks To Understand The Minds Of Other Men And Women; The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Which Weighs Their Interests Alongside Its Own Without Bias.