A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.