The art of victory is learned in defeat.
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.
Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.
Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.
Morals and lights are our first necessities.