The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

One should not hatch all eggs under the same hen.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.