A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Language is the light of the mind

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?