Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.