The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.