Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.