"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."

"The effects of liberty on the human mind are not always favourable to the peace of society, or to the order of a state."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."