Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.