Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Man is a tool-making animal

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.