Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.