Yesterday the greatest question was decided
which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to *be, free and independent States.
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans
make a state; but where men are who know how
to take care of themselves, these are cities and
walls.
Attributed to Alcjeus by Aristtdes—Orations. Vol. II. (Jebb's edition. Austin's trans.}})
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| text = <poem>States are great engines moving slowly.
Bacon—Advancement of Learning. Bk. II.
Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum
vere superius inflexum sit.
So that every wand or staff of empire is
forsooth curved at top.
Bacon—De Sapientia Veterum. (1609) 6.
Pan, sive Natura. Sometimes translated,
"All sceptres are crooked atop." Referring
to the shepherd's crook of Pan, and implying
that government needs to be roundabout
in method.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.
Anon.—Puritan's Mistake. (1844)
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| text = Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
Mrs. A. Behn—Comedy of The Round Heads.
Act I. Sc. 2.
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| text = <poem>"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him
in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.
Richard Bentley—Declaration of Rights.
England is the mother of parliaments.
John Bright'—Speech at Birmingham, Jan.
18, 1865. See Thorold Rogers' ed. of
Bright's Speeches. Vol. II. P. 112. Appeared in London Times, Jan. 19, 1865.
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| text = I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for
Reform,—thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.
John Bright. Speech at Birmingham Town
Hall, April 28, 1859. Attributed to Joseph
Hume by Sm Charles Dilke in the Morning Herald, Aug. 2, 1899. Probably said by
William IV to Earl Gray, in an interview,
Nov. 17, 1830. Found in H. B.'s Cartoons,
No. 93, pub. Nov. 26, 1830. Also in a letter
of Princess Lhsven, Nov., 1830. See
Warren's Ten Thousand a Year. (Inscribed
on the banner of Tittlebat Titmouse.)
Referred to in Molesworth's Hist, of the
Reform Bill of 1832. P. 98.
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own
people, is the strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple reason, that
it is based on the will, and the good will, of an
instructed people.
John Bright—Speech at Rochdale. Nov. 24,
1863.
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are "our children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Burke—Thoughts and Details on Scarcity.
VoLV. P. 156.
When bad men combine, the good must associate.
Burke—Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent.
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.'
R. F. Burton—Explorations of the Highroads
of Brazil. I. P. 11. (About 1869)
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| text = <poem>Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of state,
But such as serves a present strait.
Butler—Miscellaneous Thoughts. L. 159.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust. .
Byron—Cfafofe Harold. Canto II. St. 84.
A power has arisen up in the Government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
<poem>Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
