All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.