"Man is by his constitution a religious animal."

"Old establishments are tried by their effects. If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the government under which they are found to be good."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"No man can be a good citizen who is not a good son, a good brother, a good husband, or a good father."

"I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman."