Self-preservation And Self-denial: The Basis Of All

The One Pervading Evil Of Democracy Is The Tyranny Of The Majority, Or Rather Of That Party, Not Always The Majority, That Succeeds, By Force Or Fraud, In Carrying Elections.

It Is They [men Of Science] Who Hold The Secret Of The Mysterious Property Of The Mind By Which Error Ministers To Truth, And Truth Slowly But Irrevocably Prevails. Theirs Is The Logic Of Discovery, The Demonstration Of The Advance Of Knowledge And The Development Of Ideas, Which As The Earthly Wants And Passions Of Men Remain Almost Unchanged, Are The Charter Of Progress, And The Vital Spark In History.

Absolute Power Demoralizes.

The Man Who Prefers His Country Before Any Other Duty Shows The Same Spirit As The Man Who Surrenders Every Right To The State. They Both Deny That Right Is Superior To Authority.

The Barbarians, Who Possessed No Books, No Secular Knowledge, No Education, Except In The Schools Of The Clergy, And Who Had Scarcely Acquired The Rudiments Of Religious Instruction, Turned With Childlike Attachment To Men Whose Minds Were Stored With The Knowledge Of Scripture, Of Cicero, Of St. Augustine; And In The Scanty World Of Their Ideas, The Church Was Felt To Be Something Infinitely Vaster, Stronger, Holier Than Their Newly Founded States.