Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. |
Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. |
So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen. |
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. |
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. |
Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite |
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures |
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman. |
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. |
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds |
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. |
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth |
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. |
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. |
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves |