Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.