Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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

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.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.