"The strongest argument for representative government is, that it is a security for good government."

"All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."

"All errors which are likely to do harm, are the proper objects of animadversion, and may be justly censured."

"The love of money is the root of all evil: but the love of liberty is the root of all good."

"The tendency of all changes of a progressive kind, is to give increased ascendancy to the comparatively uninstructed many."