"Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"It is not the country that makes the man, but the man that makes the country."

"By the universal economy of nature it is known, and by the instance of the Jews it is proved, that the human species has a tendency to degenerate, in any small number of persons, when separated from t…"

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."

"The independence of America, considered merely as a commercial object, is an object of no inconsiderable magnitude."