I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.