A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.