Ask your neighbour to point you to the evils under which he labours--ask him to name the man who is oppressed except by his vices or his follies, and if he be honest, he will tell you that there is no such man--if he be dishonest, his silence will be proof in point.
Daggett challenges individuals to reflect on their grievances and suggests that personal failings are often the true source of their troubles.
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If no benefits will result--if much evil will probably ensue--the course of duty and interest is plain.
My fellow citizens human nature is the same here as in France--Then before you give ear to the songs of enchantment Count the Cost--Before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage Count the Cost.
Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.
Those who speak of a new Constitution, and of thorough reforms, should recollect that the promoters of these schemes in France, constantly amused the people with the idea that a new order of things--new rights--new principles, were to…
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