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.

The used key is always bright.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.