A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.