A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Author » Burke, Edmund
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.