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.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.