While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.