When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.