What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

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

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

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