Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.