It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

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.