For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.