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

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.