The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional