Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.