The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.