Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.