To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

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

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

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.