4 quotes
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Southey's Colloquies on Society', The Edinburgh Review (1830)
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
Southey's Colloquies on Society', The Edinburgh Review (1830)
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth, as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear.
Southey's Colloquies on Society', The Edinburgh Review (1830)
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Southey's Colloquies on Society', The Edinburgh Review (1830)