Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.