A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.