Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.