To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone