The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property

New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Logic is the anatomy of thought

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law

All wealth is the product of labor.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing