The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.