I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.