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The Will Of A Majority Is The Will Of A Rabble. Progressive Democracy Is Incompatable With Liberty.

To Maintain The Ascendancy Of The Constitution Over The Lawmaking Majority Is The Great And Essential Point On Which The Success Of The [american] System Must Depend; Unless That Ascendancy Can Be Preserved, The Necessary Consequence Must Be That The Laws Will Supersede The Constitution; And, Finally, The Will Of The Executive, By Influence Of Its Patronage, Will Supersede The Laws . . .

True Consistency, That Of The Prudent And The Wise, Is To Act In Conformity With Circumstances, And Not To Act Always The Same Way Under A Change Of Circumstances.

We Have Had So Many Years Of Prosperity, We Have Passed Through So Many Difficulties And Dangers Without The Loss Of Liberty - That We Begin To Think That We Hold It By Divine Right From Heaven Itself ... It Is Harder To Preserve Than To Obtain Liberty.

The Surrender Of Life Is Nothing To Sinking Down Into Acknowledgment Of Inferiority.