The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
All power is inherent in the people.
. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.
One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.