The Long Term Versus The

Everybody Likes To Get As Much Power As Circumstances Allow, And Nobody Will Vote For A Self-denying Ordinance.

The Possession Of Unlimited Power Corrodes The Conscience, Hardens The Heart, And Confounds The Understanding.

Feudalism Made Land The Measure And The Master Of All Things.

The Man Who Prefers His Country Before Any Other Duty Shows The Same Spirit As The Man Who Surrenders Every Right To The State. They Both Deny That Right Is Superior To Authority.

A Generous Spirit Prefers That His Country Should Be Poor, And Weak, And Of No Account, But Free, Rather Than Powerful, Prosperous, And Enslaved.