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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh
till your hearts ake.
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh
till your hearts ake.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
