When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.