"Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential tha…"

"I require no guard but the affections of the people."

"If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?"

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."