We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.