Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.