Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.