History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Indepen…”

“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we ar…”

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tori…”

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining …”