There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.