Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.