As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

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

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.