And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.