Experience Is A Safe Light To Walk

Take The Whole Range Of Imaginative Literature, And We Are All Wholesale Borrowers. In Every Matter That Relates To Invention, To Use, Or Beauty Or Form, We Are Borrowers.

Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty; Power Is Ever Stealing From The Many To The Few. The Manna Of Popular Liberty Must Be Gathered Each Day Or It Is Rotten. The Living Sap Of Today Outgrows The Dead Rind Of Yesterday. The Hand Entrusted With Power Becomes, Either Form Human Depravity Or Esprit De Corps, The Necessary Enemy Of The People. Only By Continued Oversight Can The Democrat In Office Be Prevented From Hardening Into A Despot; Only By Unintermitted Agitation Can A People Be Sufficiently Awake To Principle Not To Let Liberty Be Smothered In Material Prosperity.

The Community Which Does Not Protect Its Humblest And Most Hated Member In The Free Utterance Of His Opinions, No Matter How False Or Hateful, Is Only A Gang Of Slaves. If There Is Anything In The Universe That Can't Stand Discussion, Let It Crack.

Debt Is The Fatal Disease Of Republics, The First Thing And The Mightiest To Undermine Governments And Corrupt The People.

The Hand Entrusted With Power Becomes, Either From Human Depravity Or Esprit De Corps, The Necessary Enemy Of The People