History, Like Love, Is So

It Is Better For A Man To Die At Peace With Himself Than To Live Haunted By An Evil Conscience!

Whenever The Government Of The United States Shall Break Up, It Will Probably Be In Consequence Of A False Direction Having Been Given To Publick Opinion. This Is The Weak Point Of Our Defenses, And The Part To Which The Enemies Of The System Will Direct All Their Attacks. Opinion Can Be So Perverted As To Cause The False To Seem The True; The Enemy, A Friend, And The Friend, An Enemy; The Best Interests Of The Nation To Appear Insignificant, And Trifles Of Moment; In A Word, The Right The Wrong, And The Wrong The Right.

When Men Struggle For The Single Life God Has Given Them ... Even Their Own Kind Seem No More Than The Beasts Of The Wood.

The American Doctrinaire Is The Converse Of The American Demagogue, And, In This Way, Is Scarcely Less Injurious To The Public. The First Deals In Poetry, The Last In Cant. He Is As Much A Visionary On One Side, As The Extreme Theoretical Democrat Is A Visionary On The Other.

The Disposition Of All Power Is To Abuses, Nor Does It At All Mend The Matter That Its Possessors Are A Majority. Unrestrained Political Authority, Though It Be Confided To Masses, Cannot Be Trusted Without Positive Limitations, Men In Bodies Being But An Aggregation Of The Passions, Weaknesses And Interests Of Men As Individuals.