Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.