The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
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.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
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.
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.
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