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...useless to love liberty unless we establish laws. It is futile to cherish justice unless we provide courts...
...plans must not now anticipate the future destiny of Russia. . . . Our people deprived today of all liberties, alone have the right to establish the bases of their existence It is they who will found the wealth, glory and greatness of Russian power...
...private merchant and will be of great assistance to us at present, when we are unable to supply the peasants' needs for manufactured articles and textiles. The state cannot now neglect private capital. . . . Private industrialists must have the privilege of importing machinery and raw material with which to establish factories...
...protection. . . . The leading powers have all concluded, treaties with Turkey. ... To refuse friendly relations with all peoples who reject Christianity is not only unthinkable as a practical course for the Government to pursue, but I had always supposed that the great object of Christianity in international affairs was to establish friendly relations, not only with other Christian nations, but with the anti-Christian nations, that they might, be brought in touch with the teachings of Christianity and thereby be induced to accept its benign precepts. . . . Are you in favor of employing an army and navy to effectuate righteousness and justice...
This suggests that a similar elasticity of system and administration might be adopted with signal advantages at Harvard, provided the present college mass were to be divided into groups small enough to establish complete mutual personal contact and understanding between students and teachers. Moreover, there is no reason why some such college groups, like Balliol at Oxford or Kings at Cambridge, should not constitute themselves wholly on the "honors" system, and thus demonstrate their thesis for the encouragement or warning, of other colleges...