Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.