The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.