Perhaps if they attended better to their own financial affairs, they would be in a better situation to laugh.

But still we must look to facts and results.
How did the Tories, when they went out of office, leave the kingdom ?--At peace ?" "Yes, with all the world." "How did the Whigs leave it ?" "With three wars on hand, and one in the vat a-brewin' with America.
Every great interest injured, some ruined, and all alarmed at the impendin' danger--of national bankruptcy." "Well, now for dollars and cents.

How did the Tories leave the treasury ?" "With a surplus revenue of millions." "How did the Whigs ?" "With a deficiency that made the nation scratch their head, and stare agin." "I could go through the details with you, as far as my imperfect information extends, or more imperfect memory would let me; but it is all the same, and always will be, here, in France, with us, in the colonies, and everywhere else.

Whenever property, talent, and virtue are all on one side, and only ignorant numbers, with a mere sprinkling of property and talent to agitate 'em and make use of 'em, or misinformed or mistaken virtue to sanction 'em on the other side, no honest man can take long to deliberate which side he will choose.
"As to those conservatives, I don't know what to say, Sam; I should like to put you right if I could.

But I'll tell you what puzzles me.