Politics are the divine science, after all.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity but truth, virtue, and his country? I will tell you; he will be regarded more by posterity than those who worship hounds and horses; and although he will not make his own fortune, he will make the fortune of his country.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.