The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
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.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.