Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.