The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.