Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Stupid is as stupid does.