When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Very good laws may be ill timed.