
“Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.”
No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 19
The English Constitution (1867)
As quoted in Rise of the Spanish-American Republics as Told in the Lives of their Liberators (1918) by William Spence Robertson, p. 239
The Angostura Address (1819)
“Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.”
No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 19
The English Constitution (1867)
Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)
Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 24
“The best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power.”
Source: Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 40-41
Context: The best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power. The best education does not automatically make people compassionate. We know this more clearly than any preceding generation. Our time has seen the best-educated society, situated in the heart of the most civilized part of the world, give birth to the most murderously vengeful government in history.
Forty years ago the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead thought it self-evident that you would get a good government if you took power out of the hands of the acquisitive and gave it to the learned and the cultivated. At present, a child in kindergarten knows better than that.
Free Speech and Plain Language (1936)
Context: I had a desultory talk with one devotee of expediency not long ago, a good friend and a thoroughly excellent man. He was all worked up over the activities of Communists and what he called pink Socialists, especially in the colleges and churches. He said they were corrupting the youth, and he was strong for having them coerced into silence. I could not see it that way. I told him it seemed pretty clear that Mr. Jefferson was right when he said that the effect of coercion was "to make one half the people fools and the other half hypocrites, and to support roguery and error all over the earth"; look at Germany and Italy! I thought our youth could manage to bear up under a little corrupting — they always have — and if they were corrupted by Communism, they stood a first-rate chance to get over it, whereas if they grew up fools or hypocrites, they would never get over it.
I added that Mr. Jefferson was right when he said that "it is error alone which needs the support of government; truth can stand by itself." One glance at governments anywhere in the world proves that. Well, then, the surest way to make our youth suspect that there may be something in Communism would be for the government to outlaw it.
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)