There Are Evils Worse Than Death.

It Is A Besetting Vice Of Democracies To Substitute Public Opinion For Law. This Is The Usual Form In Which Masses Of Men Exhibit Their Tyranny.

The Demagogue Is Usually Sly, A Detractor Of Others, A Professor Of Humility And Disinterestedness, A Great Stickler For Equality As Respects All Above Him, A Man Who Acts In Corners, And Avoids Open And Manly Expositions Of His Course, Calls Blackguards Gentlemen, And Gentlemen Folks, Appeals To Passions And Prejudices Rather Than To Reason, And Is In All Respects, A Man Of Intrigue And Deception, Of Sly Cunning And Management.

The Very Existence Of Government At All, Infers Inequality. The Citizen Who Is Preferred To Office Becomes The Superior Of Those Who Are Not, So Long He Is The Repository Of Power.

Everybody Says It, And What Everybody Says Must Be True.

Commerce Is Entitled To A Complete And Efficient Protection In All Its Legal Rights, But The Moment It Presumes To Control A Country, Or To Substitute Its Fluctuating Expedients For The High Principles Of Natural Justice That Ought To Lie At The Root Of Every Political System, It Should Be Frowned On, And Rebuked.