The Strong Man With The Dagger Is

That Great Political Idea, Sanctifying Freedom And Consecrating It To God, Teaching Men To Treasure The Liberties Of Others As Their Own And To Defend Them For The Love Of Justice And Charity More Than As A Claim Of Right, Has Been The Soul Of What Is Great And Good In The Progress Of The Last Two Hundred Years.

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.

Good And Evil Lie Close Together. Seek No Artistic Unity In Character.

It Is Dangerous, At Any Time, To Multiply Sources Of Weakness.

Liberty Is The Prevention Of Control By Others.