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.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

All political power is a trust.

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.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.