People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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.
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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