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" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "

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" I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. "

" I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. "

" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

" The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. "

" I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "

" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "

" Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. "

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. "

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "

" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "

" To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "

" Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. "

" Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. "