Ambition can creep as well as soar.
From Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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