The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the corinthian capital of polished society.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Mere parsimony is not economy.Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise,it costs nothing.
Religion, by ‘consecrating’ the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Geography is an earthly subject, but a heavenly science.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.