A coward's courage is in his tongue.
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Responsibility prevents crimes.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.
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