Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
We cannot learn men from books.
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.