The Mills Of God Grind Slowly.

The Will Of The People Cannot Make Just That Which Is Unjust.

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.

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.

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.

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.