Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.