"To form a moderate government, it is necessary to combine the powers, to regulate them, to temper them, to set them in motion; to give, so to speak, a ballast to one, in order to enable it to resist a…"

"If a republic is small, it is destroyed by a foreign force; if it is large, it is ruined by an internal imperfection."

"All religions contain precepts useful to society."

"Trade is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and wherever there is commerce, there we meet …"

"The love of our country is a love of ourselves."