"I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases."

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."

"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement"

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints."

"It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors."

"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."

"Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings."

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security."

"Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of."

"Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn."

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."