I Do Not Pretend That All That

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.

Should We Distrust The Man Because His Manners Are Not Our Manners, And That His Skin Is Dark?

The Very Existence Of Government At All, Infers Inequality. The Citizen Who Is Preferred To Office Becomes The Superior Of Those Who Are Not, So Long He Is The Repository Of Power.

The Affairs Of Life Embrace A Multitude Of Interests, And He Who Reasons In Any One Of Them, Without Consulting The Rest, Is A Visionary Unsuited To Control The Business Of The World.

Superstition Is A Quality That Seems Indigenous To The Ocean.