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

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.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.