Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.