What Is Fanaticism Today Is The Fashionable

No Class Is Safe Unless Government Is So Arranged That Each Class Has In Its Hands The Means Of Protecting Itself. That Is The Idea Of Republics.

Brains And Character Rule The World. The Most Distinguished Frenchman Of The Last Century Said: Men Succeed Less By Their Talents Than Their Character. There Were Scores Of Men A Hundred Years Ago Who Had More Intellect Than Washington. He Outlives And Overrides Them All By The Influence Of His Character.

The Hand Entrusted With Power Becomes, Either From Human Depravity Or Esprit De Corps, The Necessary Enemy Of The People

The Keener The Want The Lustier The Growth.

Society,--the Only Field Where The Sexes Have Ever Met On Terms Of Equality, The Arena Where Character Is Formed And Studied, The Cradle And The Realm Of Public Opinion, The Crucible Of Ideas, The World's University, At Once A School And A Theater, The Spur And The Crown Of Ambition, The Tribunal Which Unmasks Pretension And Stamps Real Merit, The Power That Gives Government Leave To Be, And Outruns The Lazy Church In Fixing The Moral Sense Of The Eye.