The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy