A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815