As to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in p...ublic life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contem...pt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over..., but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an into...lerable one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious ...the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the servic...e of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to... part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »