No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.