You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.