Whoever knows the interior of affairs, must be sensible to how many more events the faults of statesmen give birth, than are produced by good intentions.
Having nothing to construct, he could always deal with generalities. Being free from responsibility, he was not called upon either to study details or to master even great facts. It was his business to inveigh against existing evils, and perhaps there is no easier business when once the privilege of an audience has been attained.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood---we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we [are].
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Let me repeat in a slightly different way: genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not similarly handicapped.
