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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.