No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

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

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.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.