"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Government is best which governs least