Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.

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.

When The Last Of The Reformers Died, Religion, Instead Of Emancipating The Nations, Had Become An Excuse For The Criminal Art Of Despots. Calvin Preached, And Bellarmine Lectured; But Machiavelli Reigned.

Feudalism Made Land The Measure And The Master Of All Things.

History Is The Arbiter Of Controversy, The Monarch Of All She Surveys.

It Is Easier To Find People Fit To Govern Themselves Than People Fit To Govern Others.