If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.