Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.