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.
Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Those who attempt to level, never equalize.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement.
No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.