Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.