Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.