Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.