Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.

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

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

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

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.