I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

Virtue is not always amiable.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

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

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.