"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."

"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"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."

"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations."

"The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."

"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

"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."

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."

"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."

"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."

"Free trade is not based on utility but on justice."

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."

"Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil."

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice."

"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."