It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.