If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other...
Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of ta...
An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.