The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
Rumor is not always wrong
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.