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

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.