“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

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

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

I cannot live without books.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.