To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.