By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.

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?