Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
Never forgive at the ballot box!
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.