Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.