"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species, it always acts right."

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

"The love of lucre, and not the love of liberty, is the ruling principle of the new French Republic."

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."