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Ask Any Rich Man Of Common Prudence To Which Of The Two Sorts Of People He Has Lent The Greater Part Of His Stock, To Those Who, He Thinks, Will Employ It Profitably, Or To Those Who Will Spend It Idly, And He Will Laugh At You For Proposing The Question.

The Tolls For The Maintenance Of A High Road, Cannot With Any Safety Be Made The Property Of Private Persons.

The Necessaries Of Life Occasion The Great Expense Of The Poor. They Find It Difficult To Get Food, And The Greater Part Of Their Little Revenue Is Spent In Getting It. The Luxuries And Vanities Of Life Occasion The Principal Expense Of The Rich, And A Magnificent House Embellishes And Sets Off To The Best Advantage All The Other Luxuries And Vanities Which They Possess ... It Is Not Very Unreasonable That The Rich Should Contribute To The Public Expense, Not Only In Proportion To Their Revenue, But Something More Than In That Proportion.

Whenever The Legislature Attempts To Regulate Differences Between Masters And Their Workmen, Its Counsellors Are Always The Masters. When The Regulation, Therefore, Is In Favor Of The Workmen, It Is Always Just And Equitable; But It Is Sometimes Otherwise When In Favor Of The Masters.

Every Tax, However, Is To The Person Who Pays It A Badge, Not Of Slavery But Of Liberty. It Denotes That He Is A Subject To Government, Indeed, But That, As He Has Some Property, He Cannot Himself Be The Property Of A Master.