Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.