Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.