I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.