philosophy Quotes

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.