Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.