Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.