Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.