The Long Term Versus The Short Term

There Are Many Things The Government Cant Do, Many Good Purposes It Must Renounce. It Must Leave Them To The Enterprise Of Others. It Cannot Feed The People. It Cannot Enrich The People. It Cannot Teach The People. It Cannot Convert The People.

Democracy Generally Monopolizes And Concentrates Power.

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.

It Is Bad To Be Oppressed By A Minority, But It Is Worse To Be Oppressed By A Majority. For There Is A Reserve Of Latent Power In The Masses Which, If It Is Called Into Play, The Minority Can Seldom Resist. But From The Absolute Will Of An Entire People There Is No Appeal, No Redemption, No Refuge But Treason.

A Wise Person Does At Once, What A Fool Does At Last. Both Do The Same Thing; Only At Different Times.