The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.