The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

To innovate is not to reform.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.