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And the final event to himself has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
Letter to the Addressers (1792)
There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes.
Letter to the Addressers (1792)
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Letter to the Addressers (1792)
A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
Letter to the Addressers (1792)
It is from a strange mixture of tyranny and cowardice that exclusions have been set up and continued. The boldness to do wrong at first, changes afterwards into cowardly craft, and at last into fear.
Letter to the Addressers (1792)