Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.