Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
You can never plan the future by the past.
To innovate is not to reform.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.