Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet …

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.