Hope Is The Most Treacherous Of All

These Families, You Know, Are Our Upper Crust, Not Upper Ten Thousand.

It Is A Misfortune That Necessity Has Induced Men To Accord Greater License To This Formidable Engine, In Order To Obtain Liberty, Than Can Be Borne With Less Important Objects In View; For The Press, Like Fire, Is An Excellent Servant, But A Terrible Master.

The Disposition Of All Power Is To Abuses, Nor Does It At All Mend The Matter That Its Possessors Are A Majority. Unrestrained Political Authority, Though It Be Confided To Masses, Cannot Be Trusted Without Positive Limitations, Men In Bodies Being But An Aggregation Of The Passions, Weaknesses And Interests Of Men As Individuals.

The Sublimity Connected With Vastness, Is Familiar To Every Eye.

The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity.