I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

We are all human, and all do wrong.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.