Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another’s point of view.
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
The lottery is a government institution and the poor its best patrons.
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government—but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.
For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
