A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.