The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing