The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.