I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.