There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.