Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

:if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow …

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.