“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
