It could be protected only by an energetic and clear-sighted central government, and it could be fertilized only by the efficient national organization of American activities.

For national organization demands in relation to individuals a certain amount of selection, and a certain classification of these individuals according to their abilities and deserts.

It is just this kind or effect of liberty which Jefferson and his followers have always disliked and discouraged.

They have been loud in their praise of legally constituted rights; but they have shown an instinctive and an implacable distrust of intellectual and moral independence, and have always sought to suppress it in favor of intellectual and moral conformity.

They have, that is, stood for the sacrifice of liberty--in so far as liberty meant positive intellectual and moral achievement--to a certain kind of equality.
I do not mean to imply by the preceding statement that either Jefferson or his followers were the conscious enemies of moral and intellectual achievement.