The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.