But if any among you thinks that Philip will maintain his power by having occupied forts and havens and the like, this is a mistake.… Impossible is it, impossible, Athenians, to acquire a solid power by injustice and perjury and falsehood. Such things last for once, or for a short period; maybe, they blossom fairly with hope; but in time they are discovered and drop away. As a house, a ship, or the like, ought to have the lower parts firmest, so in human conduct, I ween, the principle and foundation should be just and true.--DEMOSTHENES, _Second Olynthiac_, tr. Kennedy. * * * * * Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel! Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?--EZEKIEL, xviii. 25. * * * * * ’Twere better, O my son, To cultivate Equality, who joins Friends, cities, heroes in one steadfast league; For by the laws of Nature through the world Equality was established: … Equality, among the human race, Measures and weights and numbers hath ordained. EURIPIDES, _The Phœnician Damsels_, tr. Wodhull. * * * * * That all might free and equal all remain. LUCAN, _Pharsalia_, tr. Rowe, Book IX. 336. * * * * * Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote.--GOUVERNEUR MORRIS: _Debates in the Federal Convention_, August 8, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. III. p. 1264. * * * * * He took his ground carefully, and propounded only what he felt sure that Hardy himself would at once accept,--what no man of any worth could possibly take exception to. He meant much more, he said, than this, but for the present purpose it would be enough for him to say, that, whatever else it might mean, _Democracy in his mouth always meant that every man should have a share in the government of his country_.--HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, Vol. II. Chap. XIX. * * * * *