In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan RobinsonNot an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
John Buchanan RobinsonIt was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
John Buchanan Robinson