in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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.
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.
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