Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.