The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from 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.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.