The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.