The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.