“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
