"The greatest services that can be rendered unto mankind are those which promote the general good."

"The strength of a nation dependeth not on the number of its inhabitants but on the spirit that animates them."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act."

"Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that milli…"