Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.