Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.