The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

A rational army would run away.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.