The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.