It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
You can never plan the future by the past.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.