Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.