History Is A Jangle Of Accidents, Blunders,

The English Love For Privacy Is Proverbial, And Has Not Been Exaggerated. A Stranger Who Strikes Up A Conversation Is Looked Upon With Suspicion - Unless He Happens To Be An American, When His Ignorance Of Good Manners Is Indulged.

A Free Society Cherishes Nonconformity. It Knows From The Non-conformist, From The Eccentric, Have Come Many Of The Great Ideas.

We Should Not Be Surprised That The Founding Fathers Didn't Foresee Everything, When We See That The Current Fathers Hardly Ever Foresee Anything.

Freedom Is Not A Luxury That We Can Indulge In When At Last We Have Security And Prosperity And Enlightenment; It Is, Rather, Antecedent To All Of These, For Without It We Can Have Neither Security Nor Prosperity Nor Enlightenment.

It Seems Fair To Say That While The Moral Standards Of The Nineteenth Century Persisted Almost Unchanged Into The Twentieth, Moral Practices Changed Sharply, And That Though The Standards Of The Nineteenth Century Persisted The Institutions That Had Sustained Them And The Sanctions That Had Enforced Them Lost Influence And Authority.