Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.