Men Are Least Safe From What Success

Many Things Complicated By Nature Are Restored By Reason.

No Wickedness Proceeds On Any Grounds Of Reason.

An Honor Prudently Declined Often Returns With Increased Luster.

He Will Have True Glory Who Despises It.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.