It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though for but one year, can never willingly abandon it.