“Mr. President‚ the small progress we have made after four or five weeks’ close attendance and continual reasonings with each other—our different sentiments on almost every question‚ several of the last producing as many noes as ayes—is‚ methinks‚ a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom‚ since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government‚ and examined the different forms of those republics which‚ having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution‚ now … The post The Editors’ Quote of the Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.