General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.