You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.