"The means of procuring happiness are always in our power."

"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."

"He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding, doubles his own; he who profits of a superior understanding, raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding which he uses…"

"Old establishments are tried by their effects. If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the government under which they are found to be good."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."