Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

To innovate is not to reform.

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.