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

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Never forgive at the ballot box!

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.

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.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.