I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
A government of laws, and not of men.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
The jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
