Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.

Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.

Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—­democracy to many.

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.