The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists …

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpati…

Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can se…

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who …