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 quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

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 …

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

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