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Socrates was no liberal. He opposed a city; refused to conciliate; and died an irreconcilable, who obeyed his own daemonia but not that of the sovereign people. The real liberal of ancient times was the great Apostle, who took pure Christianity and mixed it with the dirt of slavery and a corrupt social order and made a going thing...
...stand." They were issuing the ridiculous Viborg Manifesto and trying to work though a emasculated Douma. They were saying in March, 1917, "this revolution cannot last fifteen days." They are saying now, "We will concede this, we will grant that: but the institution of private property, or of a sovereign state, or of centralized government, must not be touched." They cheek with the blighting hand of Expediency the clear-cut stroke of Justice. They may be Statesmen, but they can never be thinkers. They may follow: but they never lead. They may pride themselves that though they are not trial...
...free speech by men in public institutions, but its right interpretation does place on all such men a higher that ordinary responsibility to the Government and the people. The wings of thought are not to be clipped by rules or conventions, nor crippled by traditions, but speech, the sovereign vehicle of thought, must be curbed properly if the destiny of the nation is to be worked out along lines designed by the founders of the Republic...
There has never been a treaty more radical in its remodelling of international society. The Peace of Westphalia gave the coup de grace to the idea of a united Europe in the Holy Roman Empire and inaugurated an age of sovereign territorial states. The Peace of Utrecht inaugurated an age of commercial and colonial rivalry by express recognition of the principle of the balance of power. The Treaty of Vienna sought to establish a concert of Europe, but with recognition of dynastic interests, it ignored the rising tide of nationalism and democracy. It remained for the present treaty to recognize...
...government by discussion, not a government by ukase; a government of delegated powers, not a government by divine right; a government of three separate branches, not a government of absolutism. Here the people are citizens, not subjects; their chosen leaders are their servants, not their masters. Here the only sovereign is the people, and their deliberate will the ultimate law of the land. Boston Transcript...