Give Me, Lord, Neither Poverty Nor Riches.

To Suppose Such A Thing Possible As A Society, In Which Men, Who Are Able And Willing To Work, Cannot Support Their Families, And Ought, With A Great Part Of The Women, To Be Compelled To Lead A Life Of Celibacy, For Fear Of Having Children To Be Starved; To Suppose Such A Thing Possible Is Monstrous.

It Is Not The Greatness Of A Man's Means That Makes Him Independent, So Much As The Smallness Of His Wants.

I Set Out As A Sort Of Self-dependent Politician. My Opinions Were My Own. I Dashed At All Prejudices. I Scorned To Follow Anybodyin Matter Of Opinion.... All Were, Therefore, Offended At My Presumption, As They Deemed It.

I Was A Countryman And A Father Before I Was A Writer On Political Subjects... Born And Bred Up In The Sweet Air Myself, I Was Resolved That My Children Should Be Bred Up In It Too.

The Ancient Nobility And Gentry Of The Kingdom... Have Been Thrust Out Of All Public Employment... A Race Of Merchants, And Manufacturers And Bankers And Loan-jobbers And Contractors Have Usurped Their Place.