Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.