When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.