The variety of the passions is great, and worthy, in every branch of that variety, of the most diligent investigation. The more accurately we search into the ... » Go

I confess to you, Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the ... » Go

One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is, that no man should be judge in his ... » Go

Whilst they are possessed by these notions, it is vain to talk to them of the practice of their ancestors, the fundamental laws of their ... » Go

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risque the loss of ... » Go

Supposing, however, that something like moderation were visible in this political sermon; yet politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ... » Go

All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world. The most wonderful things are brought about ... » Go

It is somewhat remarkable that this reverend divine should be so earnest for setting up new churches, and so perfectly indifferent concerning the doctrine which ... » Go

Through the same plan of a conformity to nature in our artificial institutions, and by calling in the aid of her unerring and powerful instincts, ... » Go

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end, and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not a ... » Go

I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society, be he who he will … ... » Go

To make a government requires no great prudence. Settle the seat of power; teach obedience; and the work is done. To give freedom is still ... » Go

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this ... » Go

The two greatest enemies of religion are infidelity and blind zeal, the former attacks it like an open enemy, and the latter, like an indiscreet ... » Go