It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.