"To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, …"

"The way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to."

"No government can continue good but under the control of the people."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."