There Is Hardly Any Grief That An

Sometimes A Man Who Deserves To Be Looked Upon Because He Is A Fool Is Despised Only Because He Is A Lawyer.

The Mood And Temper Of The Public In Regard To The Treatment Of Crime And Criminals Is One Of The Most Unfailing Tests Of The Civilisation Of Any Country.

Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous. To Be Convinced Of This We Need Only Represent, On The One Hand,the Numberless Benefits Which Result From Vanity, As Industry, The Arts, Fashions, Politeness, And Taste; And On The Other, The Infinite Evils Which Spring From The Pride Of Certain Nations, A Laziness, Poverty, A Total Neglect Of Everything.

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

When The [law Making] And [law Enforcement] Powers Are United In The Same Person... There Can Be No Liberty.