Peace is a natural effect of trade.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.