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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, ...  
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet ha...  
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its c...  
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue...  
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do noth...  
Ambition can creep as well as soar.  
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.  
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and imposs...  
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.  
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.  
Beauty is the promise of happiness.  
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.  
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its disting...  
Custom reconciles us to everything.  
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.  
Falsehood is a perennial spring.  
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.  
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.  
Good order is the foundation of all things.  
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent...  
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our ski...  
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill...  
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observ...  
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to...  
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the...  
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth com...  
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.  
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a d...  
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for t...  
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, ...  
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.  
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from princ...  
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.  
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.  
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great e...  
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or so...  
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an e...  
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.  
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting an...  
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could...  
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.  
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.  
Our patience will achieve more than our force.  
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.  
Patience will achieve more than force.  
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws a...  
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.  
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man....   Religion
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.  
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.  
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives ...  
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new composition...  
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they ple...  
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, man...  
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to...  
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.  
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulg...  
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!  
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and b...  
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but...   Imagination
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, t...  
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.  
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any ...  
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.  
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not give...  
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.  
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.  
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, m...  
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law ...  
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.  
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.  
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one...   Politics
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of po...  
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in...  
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the...  
You can never plan the future by the past.   Time
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment;...