The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.