The Tendency Everywhere In America To Concentrate

I Have Often Asked Americans Wherein They Consider Their Freedom Superior To That Of The English, But Have Never Found Them Able To Indicate A Single Point In Which The Individual Is Worse Off In England As Regards His Private Civil Rights Or His General Liberty Of Doing And Thinking As He Pleases. They Generally Turn The Discussion To Social Equality, The Existence Of A Monarchy And Hereditary Titles And So Forth - Matters Which Are, Of Course, Quite Different From Freedom In Its Proper Sense.

No Wonder That, When A Political Career Is So Precarious, Men Of Worth And Capacity Hesitate To Embrace It. They Cannot Afford To Be Thrown Out Of Their Life's Course By A Mere Accident.

California, More Than Any Other Part Of The Union, Is A Country By Itself, And San Francisco A Capital.

The Chief Practical Use Of History Is To Deliver Us From Plausible Historical Analogies.

The Ordinary American Voter Does Not Object To Mediocrity. He Likes His Candidate To Be Sensible, Vigorous, And, Above All, What He Calls 'magnetic,' And Does Not Value, Because He Sees No Need For, Originality Or Profundity, A Fine Culture Or A Wide Knowledge.