Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.