It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth