Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.