It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.