Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.