It is a well-authenticated fact, that at the present day the most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs; and it must be acknowledged that such has been the result in proportion as democracy has outstepped all its former limits.
Gaur egun etengabe errepikatzen den gauza da pertsonarik bikainenak nekez deitzen dituztela eginkizun publikoetara, eta onartu beharra dago demokraziak bere antzinako muga guztiak gainditu dituen neurrian izan dela hori horrela.