Nations, like men, have their infancy. |
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. |
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. |
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. |
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. |