When Great Questions End, Little Parties Begin.

War Both Needs And Generates Certain Virtues; Not The Highest, But What May Be Called The Preliminary Virtues, As Valor, Veracity, The Spirit Of Obedience, The Habit Of Discipline. Any Of These, And Of Others Like Them, When Possessed By A Nation, And No Matter How Generated, Will Give Them A Military Advantage, And Make Them More Likely To Stay In The Race Of Nations.

The Best Reason Why Monarchy Is A Strong Government Is, That It Is An Intelligible Government. The Mass Of Mankind Understand It, And They Hardly Anywhere In The World Understand Any Other.

Every Banker Knows That If He Has To Prove That He Is Worthy Of Credit, However Good May Be His Arguments, In Fact His Credit Is Gone: But What We Have Requires No Proof.

Nothing Is More Unpleasant Than A Virtuous Person With A Mean Mind.

A Political Country Is Like An American Forest; You Have Only To Cut Down The Old Trees, And Immediately New Trees Come Up To Replace Them.