Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice..

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody..

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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..

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….

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

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

He who dares not offend cannot be honest..

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

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