Agitation Is The Marshalling Of

In Every Village There Will Arise A Miscreant To Establish The Most Grinding Tyranny By Calling Himself The People.

But After This Natural Burst Of Indignation, No Man Of Sense, Courage, Or Prudence Will Waste His Time Or His Strength In Retrospective Reproaches Or Repinings.

Public Opinion Is A Compound Of Folly, Weakness, Prejudice, Wrong Feeling, Right Feeling, Obstinacy, And Newspaper Paragraphs.

I Have Read All That Has Been Written By The Gravest Authorities On Political Economy On The Subject Of Rent, Wages, Taxes, Tithes.

Of All The Vulgar Arts Of Government, That Of Solving Every Difficulty That Might Arise By Thrusting The Hand Into The Public Purse Is The Most Illusory And Contemptible.