Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.