"I have always thought that there is a good deal of cant in the common talk about the advantages of poverty."

"We are born with faculties and powers, capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can be easily imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us abil…"

"The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed."

"The common people are not always to be trusted."

"For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom."