The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.