Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.