The Instruction Furnished Is Not Good Enough

The Last Degree Of Honesty Has Always Been, And Is Still Considered Incompatible With Statesmanship. To Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness Has Been Naturally, As It Were, Supposed A Disqualification For Affairs.

There Are Always Principles To Be Depended Upon In This Matter Of Taxation ... Amidst The Inconsistent, The Bewildering Representations Offered, A Certain Number Must Be In Accordance With True Principles.

I Wrote Because I Could Not Help It. There Was Something That I Wanted To Say, And I Said It: That Was All. The Fame And The Money And The Usefulness Might Or Might Not Follow. It Was Not By My Endeavor If They Did.

Laws And Customs May Be Creative Of Vice; And Should Be Therefore Perpetually Under Process Of Observation And Correction: But Laws And Customs Cannot Be Creative Of Virtue: They May Encourage And Help To Preserve It; But They Cannot Originate It.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.