When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect..

He who dares not offend cannot be honest..

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes..

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned ….

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it..

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry..

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; b….

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime..

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime..

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legisla….

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace..

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the gov….

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error..

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were th….

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corru….

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to anot….

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies..

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the….

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think..

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead..

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves..