History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Geography is an earthly subject, but a heavenly science.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.