In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.