Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.