It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.