Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
All political power is a trust.
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.