All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!
Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
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.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.
It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.