Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

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