I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.
The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
Last words are only words.
It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.