If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.