Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.