Chapter VI.
"In short, sir, you are of opinion with Bayes,—'What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?'"—Walter Scott.
"The old notions of republican simplicity are fast wearing away."—Story.
"Give me liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings, and you may take everything else. But I am fearful I have lived long enough to become an old-fashioned fellow."—Patrick Henry.
"Like Alciphron we swing in air and darkness, and know not whither the wind blows us."—Putnam's Magazine.
"Others have applied to philosophy for the spirit which should give fruit to their labors. To facts they have united speculative views, instructive lessons, political and philosophical truths, enlivening their narrative by the language which they have made it speak, and the ideas which it has enabled them to suggest."—D'Aubigné.
"When that ancient equality was laid aside, and instead thereof ambition and violence took place, tyrannical forms of government started up, and fixed themselves in many countries."—Milton.
"There can be no greater solecism in government than a failure of justice."—Halifax.
"I hope I may be pardoned, if these discoveries inclined me a little to abate of that profound veneration which I am naturally apt to pay to persons of high rank, who ought to be treated with the utmost respect due to their sublime dignity, by us their inferiors."—Swift.
"So close does falsehood approach to truth that the wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow ledge."—Cicero.
"A state is a corporation armed for the maintenance of peace. . . . Its existence is bound up with all the other corporations; it lives and moves in them; they are its natural organs; and as soon as the state, whether with despotic or anarchical views, attempts to impede the natural functions of these organs, to disturb or derange their peculiar sphere of action, it impairs its own vital powers, and prepares the way sooner or later for its own destruction."—Schlegel.
