Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.