It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax