Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.