The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"

The time is always right to do what is right.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

“A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.”