Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.