“To innovate is not to reform.”
“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
“Custom reconciles us to everything.”
“Patience will achieve more than force.”
“Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.”
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
“Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.”
“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
“Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.”
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”
“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
“The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.”
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.”
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
“A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.”
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other”
“Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.”