Saturday, February 12, 2022
Discussion of Certain Political Questions
William Samuel Johnson, quoted in M.E. Bradford, A Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (Marlborough: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. 31:
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Certain political questions, like some intricate points in Divinity, had better never be meddled with. The discussion of them can hardly do any good and will certainly produce much mischief. While they serve to whet the wits of men, they more surely sharpen their tempers toward each other.Id.:
The truth perhaps is that neither side is so bad or have so mischievous designs as the other imagines...The latter quotation in Elizabeth P. McCaughey, From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), p. 110:
The truth perhaps is that neither side are so bad or have so mischievous designs as the other imagines...
