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You can never plan the future by the past.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

To innovate is not to reform.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.