Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your ev — William Cobbett

"However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man."

"I began my editorial career with the presidency of Mr. Adams, and my principal object was to render his administration all the assistance in my power. I flattered myself with the hope of accompanying him through [his] voyage, and of partaking in a trifling degree, of the glory of the enterprise; but he suddenly tacked about, and I could follow him no longer. I therefore waited for the first opportunity to haul down my sails."

"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate in adhering to an opinion once adopted."

"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt."

"It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense."

"As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter."