In Europe We Have Cities Wealthier And

There Is In The American Government...a Want Of Unity.... The Sailors, The Helmsman, The Engineer, Do Not Seem To Have One Purpose Or Obey One Will So That Instead Of Making Steady Way The Vessel May Pursue A Devious Or Zigzag Course, And Sometimes Merely Turn Round And Round In The Water.

The Chief Practical Use Of History Is To Deliver Us From Plausible Historical Analogies.

In Europe We Have Cities Wealthier And More Populous Than Yours And We Are Not Happy. You Dream Of Your Posterity; But Your Posterity Will Look Back To Yours As The Golden Age, And Envy Those Who First Burst Into This Silent, Splendid Nature.

I Have Often Asked Americans Wherein They Consider Their Freedom Superior To That Of The English, But Have Never Found Them Able To Indicate A Single Point In Which The Individual Is Worse Off In England As Regards His Private Civil Rights Or His General Liberty Of Doing And Thinking As He Pleases. They Generally Turn The Discussion To Social Equality, The Existence Of A Monarchy And Hereditary Titles And So Forth - Matters Which Are, Of Course, Quite Different From Freedom In Its Proper Sense.

The People, Though We Think Of A Great Entity When We Use The Word, Means Nothing More Than So Many Millions Of Individual Men.