The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

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