Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.