The government you elect is the government you deserve.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

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

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.