“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
