The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Not all change is progress.
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.