By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.
Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.