The Less There Is Of Fear, The

Many Things Complicated By Nature Are Restored By Reason.

Avarice And Luxury, Those Evils Which Have Been The Ruin Of Every Great State.

Many Difficulties Which Nature Throws In Our Way, May Be Smoothed Away By The Exercise Of Intelligence.

An Honor Prudently Declined Often Returns With Increased Luster.

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.