The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.