Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.