Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

He who writes badly thinks badly

You never know what you can do till you try.

Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.