A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?