And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.