A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights