A Perfect Democracy Is Therefore The Most

All Men Have Equal Rights, But Not To Equal Things.

Better To Be Despised For Too Anxious Apprehensions Than Ruined By Too Confident A Security.

Vice Itself Lost Half Its Evil, By Losing All Its Grossness.

The Moment You Abate Anything From The Full Rights Of Men To Each Govern Himself, And Suffer Any Artificial Positive Limitation Upon Those Rights, From That Moment The Whole Organization Of Government Becomes A Consideration Of Convenience.

But A Good Patriot, And A True Politician, Always Considers How He Shall Make The Most Of The Existing Materials Of His Country. A Disposition, To Preserve, And An Ability To Improve, Taken Together, Would Be My Standard Of A Statesman. Everything Else Is Vulgar In The Conception, Perilous In The Execution.