Theatre is the most democratic side of literature.

The Revolution in the United States was produced by a mature and thoughtful taste for liberty$$$ and not by a vague and undened instinct for independence.

Despotism may govern without faith$$$ but liberty cannot.

But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience$$$ and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the consequences of their errors.

In America religion is the road to knowledge$$$ and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights$$$ or rights must be granted to no one.

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expensive of logic.

Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason$$$ but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages$$$ but not that one.