Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.