There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
Adversity is a severe instructor. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens out skill. Out antagonist is our helper.
You can never plan the future by the past.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
War never leaves, where it found a nation.
Mere parsimony is not economy... expense, and great expense,may be an essential part of true economy.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.
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