Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot al...ong. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on... every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.... The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me th' avowed, th' erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;... But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »