A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a... bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses--that man your navy, a...nd recruit your army--that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners,... and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth,... And sounds as if it should be writ on satin With syllables which breathe of the sweet South.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would ...drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, & wha...t language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way;Mall this comes of Authorship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »