Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

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

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.