Virtue Is Not Always Amiable.

Elections To Office, Which Are The Great Objects Of Ambition, I Look At With Terror!

The Truth Is That Neither Then Nor At Any Former Time, Since I Had Attained My Maturity In Age, Reading And Reflection Had I Imbibed Any General Prejudice Against Kings, Or In Favour Of Them. It Appeared To Me Then As It Has Done Ever Since, That There Is A State Of Society In Which A Republican Government Is The Best, And In America The Only One.

They Worry One Another Like Mastiffs, Scrambling For Rank And Pay Like Apes For Nuts.

In Politics The Middle Way Is None At All.

Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever.