A Political Career Brings Out The Basest

Perhaps The Most Typically American Place In America.

Three-fourths Of The Mistakes A Man Makes Are Made Because He Does Not Really Know The Things He Thinks He Knows.

The Tendency Everywhere In America To Concentrate Power And Responsibility In One Man Is Unmistakable.

Of All The Differences Between The Old World And The New, This Is Perhaps The Most Salient. Half The Wars Of Europe, Half The Internal Troubles That Have Vexed European States... Have Arisen From Theological Differences Or From The Rival Claims Of Church And State. This Whole Vast Chapter Of Debate And Strife Has Remained Virtually Unopened In The United States. There Is No Established Church. All Religious Bodies Are Equal Before The Law, And Unrecognized By The Law, Except As Voluntary Associations Of Private Citizens.

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.