Monarchy first changes into its vicious allied form, tyranny; and next, the abolishment of both gives birth to aristocracy. Aristocracy...

All these burdens were shifted from the shoulders of the poor to those of the rich. The latter were then granted special privileges: for...

It is the privilege of antiquity to mingle divine things with human, and so to add dignity to the beginnings of cities; and if any people...

But to take a more local view of matters. Why has the back country been ravaged by the repeated incursions of the enemy and the Indians,...

When we think or talk about taxes, we ought to recollect that we lie down in peace, and sleep in safety; that we can follow our farms or...

Debts we have none; and whatever we may contract on this account will serve as a glorious memento of our virtue. Can we but leave...

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our...

It is said to be founded on an article in the state-constitution, which establishes the liberty of the press. A liberty which every...

Nothing is more likely to endanger the liberty of the press, than the abuse of that liberty, by employing it in personal accusation,...

In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government...

Then, after those people, they passed a sacred mountain and the land where the Mossynoecians dwell in the mountains in ‘mossynes,’ and...

It is this spirit which has commonly sent great nations crashing down, when one party desires to triumph over another by any means at all...

Furthermore, the institution of political groups and factions, and afterward of all evil practices, originated at Rome a few years before...

Unless these actions are investigated by a tribunal, unless the guilty are punished, what will remain except to pass our lives in...

For harmony makes small states great, while the mightiest are undone by discord. Sallust. Sallust, The War with Catiline, The War with...

The Cataline conspiracy: At that period the dominion of the Roman people, it seems to me, was by far the most pitiable. Although the...

Churchill told his Glasgow audience, ‘but we can do much to mitigate the consequences of failure. We want to draw a line below which we will not allow persons to live and labour, yet above which they may compete with all the strength of their manhood. We want to have free competition upwards; we decline to allow free competition to run downwards. We do not want to pull down the structures of science and civilization; but to spread a net over the abyss.’

"States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad."

For the true author of the subjugation of a people is not so much the immediate agent, as the power which permits it having the means to prevent it; …

Churchill on trade: