Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

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.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.