Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.