The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.