...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.