Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.