“Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.”
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
“The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.”
“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.”
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
“A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.”
“I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.”
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
“Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.”
“When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.”
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
“A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.”
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.”
“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
“People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.”
“The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.”
“Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.”
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
“When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.”
“Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”
“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”
“I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.”