“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
