Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

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.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.