If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

To innovate is not to reform.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.