Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.