There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
