A False Modesty Is The Meanest Species

The Urgent Consideration Of The Public Safety May Undoubtedly Authorize The Violation Of Every Positive Law. How Far That Or Any Other Consideration May Operate To Dissolve The Natural Obligations Of Humanity And Justice, Is A Doctrine Of Which I Still Desire To Remain Ignorant.

In Discussing Barbarism And Christianity I Have Actually Been Discussing The Fall Of Rome.

[the] Discretion Of The Judge Is The First Engine Of Tyranny . . .

But A Law, However Venerable Be The Sanction, Cannot Suddenly Transform The Temper Of The Times . . .

The Most Sublime Efforts Of Philosophy Can Extend No Farther Than Feebly To Point Out The Desire, The Hope, Or, At Most, The Probability, Of A Future State, There Is Nothing, Except A Divine Revelation, That Can Ascertain The Existence, And Describe The Condition Of The Invisible Country Which Is Destined To Receive The Souls Of Men After Their Separation From The Body.