The wisdom of our ancestors.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.