"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of government."

"The only limit to the power of the legislator is the limit of practicability."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the …"

"Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts."

"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it."