If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

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

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.