Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.