The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of the government.

A nation has a right to manage its concerns as it thinks fit.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

Learn to think continentally.

We must make the best of those ills that cannot be avoided.

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for everything. Strut is good for nothing.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

The honour of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

A promise must never be broken.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.