... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

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.