I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
The people themselves are its only safe depositories. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.