Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?