People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
