Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the territory as they inhabit. If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism. The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.
Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation. Many people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.