Never Create By Law What Can Be

When A Government Lasts A Long While, It Deteriorates By Insensible Degrees. Republics End Through Luxury, Monarchies Through Poverty.

I Shall Be Obliged To Wander To The Right And To The Left, That I May Investigate And Discover The Truth.

It Is Difficult For The United States To Be All Of Equal Power And Extent.

Fain Would I Glide Down A Gentle River, But I Am Carried Away By A Torrent.

There Are Bad Examples Which Are Worse Than Crimes; And More States Have Perished From The Violation Of Morality Than From The Violation Of Law.