Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.