The Present In New York

The World Values The Seer Above All Men, And Has Always Done So. Nay, It Values All Men In Proportion As They Partake Of The Character Of Seers. The Elgin Marbles And A Decision Of John Marshall Are Valued For The Same Reason. What We Feel In Them Is A Painstaking Submission To Facts Beyond The Author's Control, And To Ideas Imposed On Him By His Vision. So With Beethoven's Symphonies, With Adam Smith's Wealth Of Nations - With Any Conceivable Output Of The Human Mind Of Which You Approve. You Love Them Because You Say, These Things Were Not Made, They Were Seen.

The Reason For The Slow Progress Of The World Seems To Lie In A Single Fact. Every Man Is Born Under The Yoke, And Grows Up Beneath The Oppressions Of His Age.

Good Government Is The Outcome Of Private Virtue.

The World Of Politics Is Always Twenty Years Behind The World Of Thought.

It Is Just As Impossible To Help Reform By Conciliating Prejudice As It Is By Buying Votes. Prejudice Is The Enemy. Whoever Is Not For You Is Against You.