No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

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

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.