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

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

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

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.