Happy The People Whose Annals Are Tiresome.

Ever Since The Invention Of Gunpowder.. I Continually Tremble Lest Men Should, In The End, Uncover Some Secret Which Would Provide A Short Way Of Abolishing Mankind, Of Annihilating Peoples And Nations In Their Entirety.

At Our Coming Into The World We Contract An Immense Debt To Our Country, Which We Can Never Discharge.

We Ought To Be Very Cautious And Circumspect In The Prosecution Of Magic And Heresy. The Attempt To Put Down These Two Crimes May Be Extremely Perilous To Liberty.

In The Infancy Of Societies, The Chiefs Of State Shape Its Institutions; Later The Institutions Shape The Chiefs Of State.

Better It Is To Say That The Government Most Comfortable To Nature Is That Which Best Agrees With The Humor And Disposition Of The People In Whose Favor It Is Established.