An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.