I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.