“I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.”
“The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.”
“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
“Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.”
“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
“When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.”
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
“A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.”
“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
“We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.”
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
“A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.”
“Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”