The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
