God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
