All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Where mystery begins religion ends.