The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.