He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.