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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.