He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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

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

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

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

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.