The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
Another for the pot!

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

Let us remember that the government and the society act and react on each other. Sometimes the government is in advance of the society, and hurries the society forward. So urged, the society gains on the government, comes up with the government, outstrips the government, and begins to insist that the government shall make more speed. If the government is wise, it will yield to that just and natural demand. The great cause of revolutions is this, that, while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. The peculiar happiness of England is that here, through many generations, the constitution has moved onward with the nation.