“It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.”
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
