Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.