Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.