Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example.
Crime is contagious.
When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected. Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.