People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.