"The English constitution was excellent until removed by foreign writers into the domain of theory, when in direct con…"

"There is a wide divergence, an irreconcilable disagreement, between the political notions of the modern world and tha…"

"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by t…"

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bea…"

"The nation had no instinct and no productive power that emancipated it from the customs of its forefathers. Every app…"

"Without presuming to decide the purely legal question, on which it seems evident to me from Madison's and Hamilton's …"

"Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion, and it stands to the domestic feelings and to home-sicknes…"

"The man who prefers his country before every other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right t…"

"A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself; a State which labours to neutralise, to abso…"

"We must not pursue science for ends independent of science. It must be pursued for its own sake, and must lead to its…"