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

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.