If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Great men never require experience.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.