Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.