It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

Time makes more converts than reason.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!