The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Responsibility prevents crimes.
Where mystery begins religion ends.
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.