This was attributable not only to particular and fortuitous circumstances, but to general and lasting causes.

I can conceive nothing more admirable or more powerful than a great orator debating on great questions of state in a democratic assembly.

As no particular class is ever represented there by men commissioned to defend its own interests, it is always to the whole nation, and in the name of the whole nation, that the orator speaks.

This expands his thoughts, and heightens his power of language.

As precedents have there but little weight-as there are no longer any privileges attached to certain property, nor any rights inherent in certain bodies or in certain individuals, the mind must have recourse to general truths derived from human nature to resolve the particular question under discussion.