Our political institutions cannot thrive, they may not even survive, if we do not produce a greater number of thinking citizens, from whom some statesmen of the type we had in the 18th century might eventually emerge.
我们的政治体制不能蓬勃发展，甚至不能存在下去，如果我们不产生大量有思想的公民，从他们中间最终可能出现18世纪的那一类型的政治家。