Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.