Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.