"If I knew of something that would be useful to me, and at the same time harmful to my family, I would drive it out of my mind. If I knew of something that would be useful to my family, and harmful to …"

"To form a moderate government, it is necessary to combine the powers, to regulate them, to temper them, to set them in motion; to give, so to speak, a ballast to one, in order to enable it to resist a…"

"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to a master such a power over his slave as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

"To be truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."