Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.