Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.