There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.