Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.