We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.