The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.