The mysterious virtue of wax and parchment. |
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. |
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. |
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success |
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing |
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. |
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. |
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. |
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion |
The traveller has reached the end of the journey! |
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts |
The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny |
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. |
The wisdom of our ancestors. |
The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own |