It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.