What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.