When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul’s.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the...

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or...

Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.’aged 4, having hot coffee spilt over his legs

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a...

And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful...

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser...

Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and...

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.