The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

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

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.