Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown, consists . . . in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted, in a variety of cases, by the nations, in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.