History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.