There Is In The American Government...a Want

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

The Tendency Everywhere In America To Concentrate Power And Responsibility In One Man Is Unmistakable.

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.

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.

There Is In The American Government...a Want Of Unity.... The Sailors, The Helmsman, The Engineer, Do Not Seem To Have One Purpose Or Obey One Will So That Instead Of Making Steady Way The Vessel May Pursue A Devious Or Zigzag Course, And Sometimes Merely Turn Round And Round In The Water.