"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…"

"The savage peoples of America, who are fond of their liberty, and are passionately attached to their country, will not change their way of life for any other."

"When an army is once formed, it is always to be feared."

"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not assuage."

"The greatest crimes are those which are prejudicial to the public."