This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.