The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.