The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.