Property Is Desirable As The Ground Work

The Disposition Of All Power Is To Abuses, Nor Does It At All Mend The Matter That Its Possessors Are A Majority. Unrestrained Political Authority, Though It Be Confided To Masses, Cannot Be Trusted Without Positive Limitations, Men In Bodies Being But An Aggregation Of The Passions, Weaknesses And Interests Of Men As Individuals.

Commerce Is Entitled To A Complete And Efficient Protection In All Its Legal Rights, But The Moment It Presumes To Control A Country, Or To Substitute Its Fluctuating Expedients For The High Principles Of Natural Justice That Ought To Lie At The Root Of Every Political System, It Should Be Frowned On, And Rebuked.

Equality, In A Social Sense, May Be Divided Into That Of Condition, And That Of Rights. Equality Of Condition Is Incompatible With Civilization, And Is Found Only To Exist In Those Communities That Are But Slightly Removed From The Savage State. In Practice, It Can Only Mean A Common Misery. Equality Of Rights Is A Peculiar Feature Of Democracies. These Rights Are Properly Divided Into Civil And Political, Though Even These Definitions Are Not To Be Taken As Absolute, Or As Literally Exact.

Advice Is Not A Gift, But A Debt That The Old Owe To The Young.

As For Bread, I Count That For Nothin'. We Always Have Bread And Potatoes Enough; But I Hold A Family To Be In A Desperate Way When The Mother Can See The Bottom Of The Pork Barrel. Give Me Children That's Raised On Good Sound Pork Afore All The Game In The Country. Game's Good As A Relish And So's Bread; But Pork Is The Staff Of Life... My Children I Calkerlate To Bring Up On Pork With Just As Much Bread And Butter As They Want.