The Education Of The Common People Requires,

But Though Empires, Like All The Other Works Of Men, Have All Hitherto Proved Mortal, Yet Every Empire Aims At Immortality.

The World Neither Ever Saw, Nor Ever Will See, A Perfectly Fair Lottery.

Little Else Is Requisite To Carry A State To The Highest Degree Of Opulence From The Lowest Barbarism But Peace, Easy Taxes, And A Tolerable Administration Of Justice: All The Rest Being Brought About By The Natural Course Of Things.

Sugar, Rum And Tobacco Are Commodities Which Are Nowhere Necessaries Of Life, Which Are Become Objects Of Almost Universal Consumption, And Which Are Therefore Extremely Proper Subjects Of Taxation.

Masters Are Always And Everywhere In A Sort Of Tacit, But Constant And Uniform Combination, Not To Raise The Wages Of Labor.