There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

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

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.