There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Those who attempt to level never equalize
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.