He tells us his creed requires him to be a good citizen: we give him a fine field in which he can be to us a fine example.
V In further consideration of this we should put by the thought of finding a mere working agreement.

There is a deep-lying basis of authority and justice to seek, which it should be our highest aim to discover.

Modern governments concede justice to those who can compel justice--even the democracy requires that you be strong enough to formulate a claim and sustain it; but this is the way of tyranny.

A perfect government should seek, while careful to develop its stronger forces and keep them in perfect balance, to consider also the claims of those less powerful but not less true.

A government that over-rides the weak because it is safe, is a tyranny, and tyranny is in seed in the democratic governments of our time.