Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

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

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.