I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

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.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

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