The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

The march of the human mind is slow.

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

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?