Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.