“Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!”

“Virtue is not hereditary.”

“There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.”

“To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim”

“Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.”

“Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.”

“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”

“We are the prisoners of ideas.”