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?

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.