... It is foolish to try to please all the people all the time with simple comforts. Hence, utopias are doomed to failure, as my critique will show. I am not a pessimist and I believe things can improve. Utopian perfection, though, is unrealistic because even the best of nations suffer. Nonetheless, there have clearly been instances of political progress, even in this un-utopian nation ... attributed, as Socrates had said, to ignorance of the good. People can be educated to see the light of reason and the validity of natural rights, so their "battle cry [will be]-reason, tolerance, humanity."...

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