There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

Religion is a mere question of geography.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.