If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Power should be a check on power.