The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.