War never leaves where it found a nation.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.