They have not applied the principle of Reform to themselves.

They have not begun at home.

Yet the end of all Reform is the improvement of the individual.
Everything that is wrong in Society results from that which is wrong in the Individual.

When men are bad, society is bad.
Franklin, with his shrewd common sense, observed, "The taxes are indeed very heavy; and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.

We are taxed quite as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement." Lord John Russell once made a similar statement to a body of working men who waited upon him for the purpose of asking relief from taxation.