Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.