By any of these forces may the tyranny be broken through.

We have seen, in the conduct of our Countrymen, to what degree it tempts to weak actions,--and furnishes excuse for them, admitted by those who sit as judges.

I wish then that we could so far imitate our enemies as, like them, to shake off these bonds; but not, like them, from the worst--but from the worthiest impulse.

If this were done, we should have learned how much of their practice would harmonize with justice; have learned to distinguish between those rules which ought to be wholly abandoned, and those which deserve to be retained; and should have known when, and to what point, they ought to be trusted .-- But how is this to be?
Power of mind is wanting, where there is power of place.

Even we cannot, as a beginning of a new journey, force or win our way into the current of success, the flattering motion of which would awaken intellectual courage--the only substitute which is able to perform any arduous part of the secondary work of 'heroic wisdom;'-- I mean, execute happily any of its prudential regulations.