Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.