There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.