This is my question for conservatives: don't you want to live, too?
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.
We are slaves, all of us. . . Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves. . . and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.