We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

The end of government is the happiness of the people.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.