Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.