"Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency."

"The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others."

"The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it."

"It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government."

"The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it."

"The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition."

"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."

"I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that."

"With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties."