I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
To innovate is not to reform.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
