Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.