A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in tha ...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.