The grand instructor, time.

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

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

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.