The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.