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

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.