By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.