The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Kill the king but spare the man.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.