Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.