For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
He shares his belief in the importance of being open to changing one's opinions based on new information.
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Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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