Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

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.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.