No Sound Ought To Be Heard In

To Tax And To Please, No More Than To Love And To Be Wise, Is Not Given To Men.

Bad Laws Are The Worst Sort Of Tyranny.

All Writers On The Science Of Policy Are Agreed, And They Agree With Experience, That All Governments Must Frequently Infringe The Rules Of Justice To Support Themselves; That Truth Must Give Way To Dissimulation, Honesty To Convenience, And Humanity Itself To The Reigning Of Interest. The Whole Of This Mystery Of Iniquity Is Called The Reason Of State.

Economy Is A Distributive Virtue, And Consists Not In Saving But Selection. Parsimony Requires No Providence, No Sagacity, No Powers Of Combination, No Comparison, No Judgment.

The Concessions Of The Weak Are The Concessions Of Fear.