Every generation needs a new revolution.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.