If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

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.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.