Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

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

We believe it to be a rule without an exception, that the violence of a revolution corresponds to the degree of misgovemment which has produced that revolution.

When the goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.