I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. The people are the masters. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. 1770 Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed. Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. 1788 Dangers by being despised grow great. The Oxford Dictionary of Art 2.