The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

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

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.