Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

