And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

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