"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."

"A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival."

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

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

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

"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience."

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

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

"Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar."

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

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

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

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."

"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."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

"All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

"History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn."

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."

"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."

"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."

"There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

"It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."

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

"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

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

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."