To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.