I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.