For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.