The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.