Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.