I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?