Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.