text:  This is the danger into which aristocracies of power are prone to fall: the error of democracies is to delight in the absolutism of liberty; but thus it is with liberty itself that true dignity of man that parent of all blessings: absolute and uncontrolled a tyranny beyond the power to endure itself the worst of bad masters a fool who is his own client; restrained and tempered it becomes a wholesome discipline a property with its rights and its duties a sober responsibility bringing with it like all other responsibilities its pleasures and its cares; not a toy to be played with nor even a jewel to be worn in the bonnet but a talent to be put out to interest and enjoyed in the unbroken tranquillity of national thankfulness and peace