Those Who Have More Power Are Liable

Neither An Enlightened Philosophy, Nor All The Political Wisdom Of Rome, Nor Even The Faith And Virtue Of The Christians Availed Against The Incorrigible Tradition Of Antiquity. Something Was Wanted, Beyond All The Gifts Of Reflection And Experience - A Faculty Of Self Government And Self Control, Developed Like Its Language In The Fibre Of A Nation, And Growing With Its Growth.

It Was From America That The Plain Ideas That Men Ought To Mind Their Business, And That The Nation Is Responsible To Heaven For The Acts Of The State, - Ideas Long Locked In The Breast Of Solitary Thinkers, And Hidden Among Latin Folios, - Burst Forth Like A Conqueror Upon The World They Were Destined To Transform, Under The Title Of The Rights Of Man... And The Principle Gained Ground, That A Nation Can Never Abandon Its Fate To An Authority It Cannot Control.

Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End.

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.

Every Thing Secret Degenerates, Even The Administration Of Justice; Nothing Is Safe That Does Not Show How It Can Bear Discussion And Publicity.