It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

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.

Reputation is the road to power