This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.