Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.