Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.