Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

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.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.