Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.