I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.