No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.