... but I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less in...dustrious, happy, or free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of ...the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing abou...t the matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States... are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »