"The power of punishment is to prevent crime, not to punish it."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

"The true politician, when he is called to the helm of a state, is to know how to preserve it from the storms, and not to expose it to them."

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