“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.