When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.