All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

Dangers by being despised grow great

Education is the cheap defense of nations

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites in proportion as their love of justice is above thir rapacity

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

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