Judge Talent At Its Best And Character

By Liberty I Mean The Assurance That Every Man Shall Be Protected In Doing What He Believes To Be His Duty Against The Influences Of Authority And Majorities, Custom And Opinion.

In Every Age Its (liberty's) Progress Has Been Beset By Its Natural Enemies, By Ignorance And Superstition, By Lust Of Conquest And By Love Of Ease, By The Strong Man's Craving For Power, And The Poor Man's Craving For Food

Writers The Most Learned, The Most Accurate In Details, And The Soundest In Tendency, Frequently Fall Into A Habit Which Can Neither Be Cured Nor Pardoned,-the Habit Of Making History Into The Proof Of Their Theories.

The History Of Institutions Is Often A History Of Deception And Illusions; For Their Virtue Depends On The Ideas That Produce And On The Spirit That Preserves Them, And The Form May Remain Unaltered When The Substance Has Passed Away.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.