Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.