Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, o...
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.
Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents...
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty...