They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.