On The Human Imagination Events

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.

There Is A Destiny In War, To Which A Brave Man Knows How To Submit With The Same Courage That He Faces His Foes.

The Listeners Got Some Such Insights Into Their Past Lives, As One Gets Into The Darker Parts Of The Woods, When A Stray Gleam Of Sunshine Finds Its Way Down To The Roots Of The Trees.

One Of The Most Melancholy Consequences Of This Habit Of Deferring To Other Nations, And To Other Systems, Is The Fact That It Causes Us To Undervalue The High Blessings We So Peculiarly Enjoy; To Render Us Ungrateful Towards God, And To Make Us Unjust To Our Fellow Men, By Throwing Obstacles In Their Progress Towards Liberty.

Liberty Is Not A Matter Of Words, But A Positive And Important Condition Of Society. Its Greatest Safeguard After Placing Its Foundations On A Popular Base, Is In The Checks And Balances Imposed On The Public Servants.