Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.