“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.