It was part of your religion to hate the British.
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.