The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

The Word of God gives power, authority and abundant life to a man.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

Heart is what makes a difference

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.