The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.