With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Unhappily, to borrow the words of Ganganelli, a large majority of mankind are 'mere abortions': calling themselves rational and intelligent beings, they act as…

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach th…