A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.