Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.