No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

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.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.