Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Liars need to have good memories.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .