No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

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 men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.