"Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most touching displays of sensibility."

"The effects of liberty on the human mind are not always favourable to the peace of society, or to the order of a state."

"The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves."

"Never was there a time in which I would have been more ashamed to have been a member of Parliament."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."