Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Whatever the context and whatever the audience, he was clear, he was committed, he was compassionate, and, far more often than most, he was right - or if not, …