Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.