He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.