Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.