The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.