I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.