No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

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

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.